Tag: resilience
#FillTheGap! Breadwinners and homemakers in Malawi
Africa & Middle East: Malidadi Chilongo learned to diversify her farm and invest in livestock, improving her family’s diet and investing in a back-up to sell if her crops fail because of extreme weather.
Read MoreLet Communities Take the Reins on Building Resilience
Global: VP of Program Development at CNFA explains how Farm Service Centers are contributing to resilient food systems - the topic of this week's #SDG2countdown.
Read MoreHow Haiti is Becoming More Resilient to Extreme Weather
Latin America & the Caribbean: Our #SDG2countdown moves on to explore SDG2.4, resilient food systems, with a blog from Chemonics outlining three climate-smart interventions helping Haiti overcome climate challenges.
Read MoreInformation Services Grow Resilient Agriculture
Global: Co-founder of big data company aWhere, Inc. discusses the need for "information agile" agriculture that can help smallholder farmers adopt to a changing climate.
Read MoreIFPRI: Resilience of Smallholders Should Be Key Theme in Sendai
Global: Why should the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction consider smallholder farmers?
Read MoreEmily Alpert: Can You Be Resilient on One Acre or Less?
Africa & Middle East: Our guest author, Emily Alpert, Deputy Director of Agriculture for Impact, concludes our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. An acre is about the size of a football pitch. That might seem like a […]
Read MoreJon Kurtz: Tough Love – Making Resilience Meaningful
Global: Our guest author, Jon Kurtz, Director for Research and Learning for Mercy Corps, continues our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. Resilience has an Achilles’ heel: By being all things, it risks being nothing […]
Read MoreSheri Arnott: Everyday Emergencies – How Social Protection Schemes Can Build Resilient Children, Families and Communities
Global: Our guest author, Sheri Arnott, Senior Policy Advisor for Food Assistance/Food Security at World Vision, continues our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. While severe food crises depicted in the media account for the most […]
Read More#2020Resilience Twitter Chat Summary
Global: To warm up for the global conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” taking place in Ethiopia in a few weeks time, Farming First and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held a lively and informative Twitter Chat on the topic of “resilience”. Our expert panelists from IFPRI and Farming First supporter organisations […]
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