Securing nutritious food for the world’s growing population is essential to ensure health and quality of life. But beyond that, it can be a driver for development. It creates rural employment, which can reduce migration. It boosts...
A new VOICES AND VIEWS article, published on Capacity4Dev to mark World Food Day on 16 October, describes how the EU has committed more than €8bn to finance programmes in over 60 countries which requested support on agriculture...
Mobile phones are becoming the latest tool for Africa's farmers. Telecommunications firm Orange has launched an information-sharing platform through which farmers in Niger, Mali, Ivory Coast and Madagascar can access market prices...
Ending food crises requires immediate humanitarian assistance but also long-term support to limit future shortages. How to advance this ‘twin-track approach’ to nutrition was one of the main agenda items when the Executive...
“The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere, and to repeat the statistics that we need to grow 50-70% more food without answering the questions, on what land, with which water and with what kind of...
“If we can replace the hand hoe with a smartphone as the most common tool in the hands of an African farmer, then we are halfway towards our dream,” said Theo de Jager, President of the Pan African Farmers Organisation and the...
Using slogans such as ‘Eat Food From Family Farms’, and ‘Healthy People, Animals and Environment’, Veterinaires Sans Frontieres Europa (VSFE) manage a number of projects that support small-scale livestock farmers as they adapt to...
One year into the EU’s second Gender Action Plan (GAP), which stepped up ambitions to make all the EU’s external action gender-sensitive, what is happening on the ground?
The Food Waste Index Report is tracking country-level progress to halve food waste by 2030 (SDG 12.3). First published in 2021, the current report builds on recent and greater datasets and provides an update on the scale of food...
IFPRI’S RESPONSE TO COVID-19 Leading CGIAR’s strategic response to COVID-19 In response to demand from donors and partners, IFPRI partnered with the International Livestock Research Institute and the CGIAR System Organization to...
