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Climate Resilient Farming Success for Rwandan Refugees and Farmers
Africa & Middle East: A climate-resilient farming project by Practical Action shows how refugees and local farmers in Rwanda are reducing hunger and combating climate change through regenerative agriculture.
Read MoreOptimising Agrifood Systems: A Recipe for Youth Employment in Africa
Africa & Middle East: A recent Malabo Montpellier Panel report shares how Africa’s agrifood system offers untapped employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for Africa’s youth.
Read MoreDeforestation: A Brazilian Farm’s Success Story Protecting the Forest
Latin America & the Caribbean: A multi-generation family business in Brazil is adopting sustainable intensification to protect the lands against deforestation.
Read MoreFish Farmers Intervention: We Need to Scale Up Climate Innovations for Aquaculture Resilience
Asia: Climate change is unfolding a crisis that impacts small-scale fish farmers deeply, but Climate Information Services offer pragmatic solutions.
Read MoreWhy Africa’s Livestock Intensification Cannot Leave Women Behind
Africa & Middle East: GALVMed experts highlight initiatives to ensure gender-equitable livestock intensification for women livestock keepers.
Read MoreTenure Security Can Empower Women Farmers and Increase Food Security
Latin America & the Caribbean: Increased tenure security for women farmers can lead to more diversified crop production and better food security, according to new research.
Read MoreHow the Climate Crisis Affects Rural Women: A Conversation with Lauren Phillips
Global: Lauren Phillips, FAO’s Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, explains how the climate crisis impact women differently than men.
Read MoreStrengthening Potato Value Chains in Pakistan by Breaking Gender Stereotypes
Asia: A CABI-led project is changing women’s role in agriculture by helping them build technical knowledge and skills in potato value chains.
Read MoreResilient Food Systems and the Power of Diversity: A Conversation with Elisabetta Recine
Latin America & the Caribbean: CONSEA’s president Elisabetta Recine shares insights into the challenges and the power of participation in building resilient food systems.
Read MoreEconomists Calculate Multi-trillion Dollar Opportunity to Transform the Global Food System
Global: Reviewing global food system economics, leading economists chart how to improve food insecurity through shifts in policy and practice.
Read MoreWomen Farmers in Tanzania Work in Unity to Grow Vegetables
Africa & Middle East: The Juhudi women farmers from Tanzania established a community garden to grow tomatoes and green vegetables with help from Farm Africa.
Read MoreSaving Every Grain of Rice: A Conversation with Jerry Tjoe Awie
Latin America & the Caribbean: Jerry Tjoe Awie, a rice breeder in Suriname, unpacks the climate challenges rice farmers face and the potential of gene banks in the region.
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