Clik here to view.
What we’ve been reading this week
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Weight of the world: 2.1 billion people obese or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What we’ve been reading this week
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. NIAB leads taskforce on new sustainable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
Launched today, the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014 (MPI) is designed to be a comprehensive measure of acute individual poverty across over 100 developing countries. Developed by the Oxford...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DFID’s Agriculture and Growth evidence paper series
The UK Department for International Development has recently released a series of evidence synthesis papers on agriculture and economic growth, which aim to inform decision makers. While they do not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sustainable Development Goals – an update
On the 19th July after 7 days of discussions, the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed an outcome document containing 17 proposed Sustainable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What we’ve been reading this week
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Why nutrition-smart agriculture matters, Devex The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What we’ve been reading this week
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Agricultural science is the backbone of sustainable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What we’ve been reading this week
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Closing the Gap: Towards a 2030 Wasting Target,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What we’ve been reading this week
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Here’s Why We Haven’t Quite Figured Out How to Feed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow: women, food and poverty
A series of international days as observed by the United Nations has and is taking place over several days this month. Yesterday Yesterday was International Day of Rural Women, the first of which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Budongo Forest Landscape: Sugarcane, food security and household wealth
The Budongo Forest Landscape, in western Uganda, has, in the recent past, seen a marked change in the land cover, predominantly from forest to sugarcane. The expansion of sugarcane has resulted in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Budongo Forest Landscape: Diets, Food Security and Nutrition
Around the Budongo forest, expanding sugarcane production, the establishment of tree plantations and forest loss have altered the landscape. In this rural area where nearly all households have a home...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Past, present and future: IFPRI’s 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report
In the fourth instalment of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s annual report on food policy, launched on 18th March 2015, authors report on the major developments that have happened at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What we’ve been reading this week
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Building a Food-Secure World Helps America Prosper,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ecomodernism: creating more questions than it answers
By Katy Wilson In April 2015 ahead of the 45th Earth Day, a group of 18 authors, including the founders of the Breakthrough Institute, released An Ecomodernist Manifesto, a report outlining how to “use...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 New Year’s resolutions to help the planet in 2016
Making small changes can have a big impact so this January do away with impossible-to-keep resolutions and do something that can make the planet greener, help local or distant communities and save you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The World Economic Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals, described as a social contract to transform the world by 2030, were the focus of a panel event at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, which aimed to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 8 Quotes from “African Farmers in The Digital Age: How Digital Solutions...
“African Farmers in the Digital Age” is a special edition anthology, published in partnership with Foreign Affairs that brings together the views of twenty leading thinkers on all aspects of food...
View Article
