Top news of the week: 14.10.2021.
Food
Is gene editing the future of food? – podcast
With the UK’s announcement that it will ease the rules for growing gene-edited crops, we investigate what this could mean for our food in a changing climate
3 Ways to Scale Up Nature-Based Solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
New research from IDB and WRI shows how the Latin American and Caribbean region is uniquely poised to advance NBS to address economic and climate crises.
Experts concerned food is off the menu at COP26
With less than 40 days until COP26, Patrick Holden, and Chantelle Wei-Ying Clement, Deputy Director at IPES Food, have voiced concerns that food needs a bigger platform if the summit is to ...
Funding for small-scale food and farming enterprises: How LEAP can help
In this guest blog, the Real Farming Trust’s Robert Fraser shares four films exploring their innovative funding programme, and how it plugs a gap in finance for small agroecological food ...
Women increasingly harvesting a bright future in farming
You cannot be a flourishing tomato farmer until you have mulched up a few rotten tomatoes, believe Africa's top women farmers.
USDA Commitments to Equity in Agriculture Include Nearly $25 Million for Programs Reaching Underserved Communities
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 7, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a trio of awards totaling nearly $25 million in grants and cooperative agreements intended to ...
From Field to Foodscape: Listening to Farmers as we Transform Global Food
A 90-min sessions rooted in learnings from one of the most important and, unfortunately, overlooked voices in the food system: farmers.