For many years, Brazil’s National Council for Food and Nutrition Security (CONSEA) has been campaigning for alleviating hunger and poverty as well as for the right to food – with success. Its President Elisabetta Recine…

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There are many entry points for the transformation of agricultural and food systems towards more productivity, sustainability and resilience. Taking the example of a farmers’ cooperative in Ethiopia’s Choke Mountains,…

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Gender

Changes in food systems not only have nutritional and income impacts for the farmers involved, but can also affect the social fabric of farming communities. A project run by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the effects…

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The world faces a malnutrition crisis amid increasing urbanisation. Here, secondary cities are emerging as potential game changers. They are places where public and private initiatives may enhance resilience to food…

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Many countries of the Global South are experiencing what is referred to as the triple burden of malnutrition, with the population suffering not only from underweight and micronutrient deficiency, but increasingly also…

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Vietnam aims to transform its food systems in a transparent, responsible and sustainable manner. To help achieve this, the new CGIAR research initiative “Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation”…

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Welthungerhilfe (WHH) has developed a food system framework to guide practitioners through a set of discrete steps to enhance systemic transformation processes at local, regional and national level. Our authors present…

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A growing demand for land, water and other natural resources in combination with human-induced climate change has put increasing pressure on nature while rapidly eroding the basis for people’s livelihoods. In order to…

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Mangroves provide natural coastal protection and a nursery for many fish. They also store more carbon dioxide than other types of forest. But all over the world, the clearance of mangrove forests is still happening on a…

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Plant protection

Use of pesticides is rapidly rising in many parts of Africa. While farmers cheer them as powerful substitutes for manual weed and pest control, the precarious institutional environment has been resulting in the…

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