Tag: sustainable development
Why a Food-Secure Future Means Focusing on Smallholder Farmers
Global: Ensuring that technology is accessible to smallholder farmers who produce most of the food is crucial to food security and ending poverty.
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New Malabo Montpellier Panel Report: Climate-proofing Africa’s food systems needs new and reimagined financing models to meet $41.3 billion adaptation cost
Africa & Middle East: African governments will need to tap into all domestic and global sources of adaptation finance to meet a shortfall of more than $40 billion to climate-proof food systems, according to the Malabo Montpellier Panel.
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How Peer-to-Peer Learning Helps Farmers Adopt New Technologies
Europe: Peer-to-peer learning can help to overcome the slow adoption of farming technologies.
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Helping the World’s Most Vulnerable Through COVID-19
Global: The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the world’s most vulnerable, and planning for the post-pandemic recovery is so important for global food security.
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Nominations Now Open for the 2021 World Food Prize
Global: Nominations are now open for the 2021 World Food Prize – a prestigious international award recognising the accomplishments of individuals working to end global hunger.
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Inequalities in Agriculture: A Threat to Sustainable Development
Africa & Middle East: The issues affecting our ability to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how to create a world that leaves no one behind.
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IFA Vice-President Mr. Abdulrahman Jawahery on the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals
Africa & Middle East: This blog post was written by Mr. Abdulrahman A. Hussain Jawahery President of the Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co (GPIC) and Vice-President for Sustainable Development for the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA). In the aftermath of Rio+20, and bearing the legacy of the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals aim to generate a multidimensional approach […]
Read MoreHarnessing Technology for Food Security
Asia: Ensuring food security in China, the world’s most populous nation, requires concerted efforts by the central and local governments as well as the private sector. From raising farm productivity to improving food safety, steering China’s millions of farmers towards agricultural technology is key in achieving self-sufficiency. Since 2003, CropLife China has joined with the National Agri-Technical […]
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