Malawi food security outlook update, April 2021
Most rural households are currently experiencing increased food access alongside ongoing harvesting and the start of a new consumption year. Minimal (IPC Phase 1) food security outcomes are widespread
Food Crops
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Actions to Transform Food Systems Under Climate Change
<p>Our food systems are failing us. This is the overarching message from the wealth of literature on food systems. Analysis by Bene and colleagues finds that this growing body of literature focuses on
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Getting biofortified food on everyone’s plate: HarvestPlus 2019 annual report
<p>HarvestPlus is committed to making food systems healthier and more inclusive to benefit the world’s most vulnerable people—particularly smallholder farming families in low- and middle-income
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Understanding the Geographic Pattern of Diffusion of Modern Crop Varieties in India
<p>By 2033, India’s demand for food grains is predicted to increase to 333 million tons (GoI, 2018), and new challenges stand in the way of meeting that demand. Indian agriculture is now threatened
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Disruptive technologies in agricultural value chains: Insights from East Africa
<p>Global food demand is expected to increase by somewhere between 59% and 98% by 2050 as the world population reaches an estimated 9.7 billion. Food production is especially critical in Africa, where
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Conservation versus food production in Africa: better managing trade-offs
Agricultural expansion is the greatest driver of the loss of nature and its biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. In Africa, this is primarily the expansion of food crops to meet growth in domestic
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Effect of Climate Change on Food Grain Production, 25/06/2019
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Effect of Climate Change on Food Grain Production, 25/06/2019. Occurrence of events like drought, frost, floods, hailstorms etc, due to climatic aberrations may impact the
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Catalyzing biofortified food systems: the 2018 annual report
More than 38 million people were growing and eating biofortified crops in 2018. The annual report, Catalyzing Biofortified Food Systems, highlights accomplishments in developing and disseminating these
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FAO/WFP joint rapid food security assessment: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
A United Nations food security assessment in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea) has found that following the worst harvest in 10 years, due to dry spells, heatwaves
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Review of land tenure systems to support the creation of an enabling environment for agricultural transformation: report on Tanzania
The African Development Bank, through its African Natural Resource Center (ANRC), is undertaking a study to review the land tenure systems in a number of African countries as part of a wider multi-country