Organic foods: Are they safer?
Organic agriculture is increasingly under the spotlight for being a promising approach to address the challenges raised by the increasing demographics and urbanization as well as climate change. In the
Agricultural Systems
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Responsible investments in agriculture and food systems: a practical handbook for parliamentarians and parliamentary advisors
This Practical Handbook is directed to Members of Parliament and Parliamentary Advisors, who are considered “change agents”. It provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the role that Parliamentarians
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2020 Annual trends and outlook report: sustaining Africa's agrifood system transformation- the role of public policies
Sustained growth and improved governance in Africa’s agriculture sector are critical to meeting the continent’s development goals, including creating decent jobs for youth, nourishing growing cities with
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Embracing innovation to meet food systems challenges
Agrifood systems are powerful levers for improving livelihoods. They must also address an array of systemic challenges, including satisfying growing global food demand, improving diets, limiting greenhouse
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Research-policy linkages: Empirical evidence from agroeconomic research in India
Policy-making processes in developing countries often continue to operate devoid of evidence. In this study, explore the research-policy linkages between the agroeconomic research system (AERS) and the
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Building transformative change in Africa’s smallholder food systems: Contributions from climate-smart agriculture and agroecology
Transforming food systems under a changing climate entails amplifying solutions that build sustainability along multiple interconnected principles—i.e., diversity, resilience, equity, economic viability,
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Spatial food and nutrition security typologies for agriculture and food value chain interventions in Eastern DRC
To guide the design of future agriculture and food value chain interventions, this paper combines two existing spatial food and nutrition security typologies and applies them to the eastern part of the
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Future foodscapes: re-imagining agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Agriculture and food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LAC) are rightfully recognized as among the most successful on the planet: they have fed a fast-growing population, facilitated economic
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Leaving no one behind: a regional outlook on gender and agrifood systems
Agrifood systems cannot be transformed unless there is gender equality. That was the simple message underlying the launch of a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Agricultural research in Southeast Asia: A cross-country analysis of resource allocation, performance, and impact on productivity
Southeast Asia made considerable progress in building and strengthening its agricultural R&D capacity during 2000–2017. All of the region’s countries reported higher numbers of agricultural researchers,