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A photo looking up from close by at an oil drilling platform, with blue sky behind.
Hidden handbrakes for climate action and social justice hosted by SIDA
Event, 29 January 2025
Cover for G03098.pdf
Mainstreaming environment and climate change: Agriculture
… Nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from hunger. Improving food security over the coming decades will ultimately rely on our ability to make agriculture both more productive and more resilient to shocks, such as … agriculture requires policymakers to integrate environment into food and farming policies, programmes, activities and funding decisions, …
Publication, 01 April 2011
Seeds carefully picked from a pile of rotting and old beans in Mali.
Food waste: can grassroots initiatives stop us throwing good food in the bin?
… The world produces 4 billion metric tonnes of food for human consumption each year. But according to figures published … Poor practices when harvesting, storing and transporting the food, as well as market and consumer wastage, are to blame. Major … is wasted According to a recent report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization , 40% of food losses in developing countries …
Insight, 04 June 2013
Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option
… of going hungry are ironically often directly involved in producing food . Many of them are small-scale African farmers. What needs to be done at micro, meso and macro levels to improve their food security? This question and ways forward were discussed at the Food … marketplace and secure the notion of women as economic agents in agriculture. For this shift in mindset to be effective and sustainable, …
Insight, 05 April 2012
Man walks in a field, with mountains behind
Farmers in China spending $280 billion adapting to climate change and nature loss
News, 07 December 2022
Farmers and extension workers jointly assessing an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan
Agricultural Research for Development: Are we moving in the right direction?
… of farmers on a sustainable basis, while providing nutritional food to their family members, communities and other consumers through … . This was surprising given that the CGIAR co-organised the 4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day in Rio+20, which demanded, in its … Rio+20 must establish a process to produce an SDG for sustainable food systems. It seems like the research community still has a long way …
Insight, 07 November 2012
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Preface by Michel Pimbert.
… Preface by Michel Pimbert. Visualising food sovereignty in the Andes: Voices and flavours of the earth is a … and cosmovisions to rethink the priorities and governance of food and agricultural research in the Andean Altiplano of Bolivia and … multi-regional initiative known as Democratising the Governance of Food Systems: Citizens Rethinking Food and Agricultural Research for the …
Publication, 01 April 2013
The fruit market is dominated by a small number of varieties that can withstand long distance shipping and meet supermarket demands for uniformity (Photo: Dirk Loop, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why food diversity must be on the menu
… and uniformity in farming over the past few decades.  Much of the food produced today is grown in monocultures – vast fields of a single … and reproduce in harsh climates.  Lack of diversity threatens our food system Monocultures and the increased reliance on a narrow range of … outbreaks, as well as the threat that climatic change poses to agriculture, greater efforts are needed by governments, consumers and …
Insight, 14 October 2016
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Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty
… The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty is expected to generate a purposeful collaboration … based on modern and traditional knowledge for the design of resilient food and agricultural systems that would have lower carbon and … Rome); * An international policy research group (the Food and Agriculture Team of the International Institute for Environment and …
Publication, 01 November 2010
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Transforming agriculture in Uganda: nine points for action
… Agriculture is hugely important in Uganda: it employs 68 per cent of the … and farmers are having a tough time. Even when local and global food prices are riding high, farmers are not pocketing the windfall. How … Food and agriculture … Transforming agriculture in Uganda: nine points for action …
Publication, 01 May 2012