Boosting local production is key to addressing food security in the region.
Boosting local production is key to addressing food security in the region.
With lockdowns ordered to contain the COVID-19 pandemic—that has reached 183 countries, infected over 1.7 million people and caused over 100,000 deaths—there are fears of food shortages ...
THE AGRICULTURE SECTORS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE 24 2.1 Focus on the agriculture sectors: combining climate change mitigation and adaptation 24 Focus on the agriculture ...
Research suggests global food production must increase by 50% to feed the world's population in 2050, but this could worsen climate and obesity crises.
Where there is tech, there is a way – How AgTech is helping to harvest opportunities in the crisis Join the African Agri Council on 26 May 2020, at 2:00pm to 4:30pm SAST and participate in ...
Amid much terrible news tied to COVID-19 comes one positive forecast: world agricultural commodity prices are stable and are expected to remain so in 2020, as production levels and stocks ...
Food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa is not news – the region is widely recognised as the world’s most food insecure. And, as participants to las...
The most important reason for promoting small-scale farming is its critical role in achieving food security, particularly for those at risk to food poverty.
By: Penny Carothers As COVID-19 silently snuck around the world in early 2020, the World Food Program (WFP) was responding to another threat as it used its massive logistical network to ...
UN calls for international solidarity to ease effects of Covid-19 on food security
In recent weeks, the United States and other high- and middle-income countries have taken bold steps to contain the Covid-19 disease. The spread of the coronavirus is at an earlier stage in ...
Preventing the coronavirus pandemic from morphing into a food security crisis is increasingly the focus of policy-makers. “Co-ordination of trade policy is the order of the day,” says Arif ...
By Amrote Abdella, Regional Director: Microsoft 4Afrika One of the most prominent challenges facing Africa is providing food security for its citizens. While many farmers still rely on ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed huge vulnerabilities and inequalities in food systems. They are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: to droughts, floods, typhoons, ...
Assuming the intensification of the COVID-19 crisis, which countries, islands, and areas are at risk of running out of food, and potentially need “aliment airlifts” (or even better, ...
Chase Sova, WFP USA sr. director of public policy, imagines what food production will look like in the 22nd century.
The COVID-19 pandemic affects food security and food systems in many low- and middle-income countries, according to a survey conducted by alumni of Wageningen Centre for Development ...