This chapter focuses on the multiple facets and meanings of water and how it is a contested resource. It also explores linkages between SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and SDG 2 (Zero hunger).
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Climate change represents a major challenge to food systems.
Toward sustainable transformation through postharvest managment: Lessons from Kenya's mango value chain
Management of postharvest food loss and waste (FLW) is an important strategy in efforts to sustainably meet the food and nutrition needs of the world’s growing population.
A way forward: Policy-driven transformation
This book has adopted a food systems framework as a new way of conceptualizing and designing food policies and research.
The livestock sector plays a major role in the Kenyan food system, contributing about 12 percent of the country’s overall GDP and 40 percent of agricultural GDP, and employing about half of the agricultural labor force (Kenya Markets Trust 2019a).
Gender and food systems in Kenya: A case study of the poultry value chain in eastern Kenya
Women are key stakeholders in sustainable and resilient food systems, given their roles as primary food producers and household caretakers (Visser and Wangu 2021).
A food system includes all elements (environment, people, inputs, processes, infrastructures, institutions, etc.) and activities that relate to the production, processing, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food, and the outputs of thes
Maize is the major food crop in eastern and southern Africa, including Kenya. Maize-based farming systems make up the largest proportion of agricultural land, and maize is central to the food system, in both rural and urban areas.
Throughout Africa, climate change is posing severe challenges to agricultural production and food security.
On 27 August 2019, National Treasury released a document titled ‘Economic transformation, inclusive growth, and competitiveness: A contribution towards a growth agenda for the South African economy’.
Gender, resilience, and food systems
Research on the gender dimensions of resilience highlights differences in the ways that men and women experience disturbances, their resilience capacities, and their preferred responses.
Blue foods play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a cornerstone of the livelihoods, economies, and cultures of many coastal and riparian communities.
Water for food systems and nutrition
Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is essential for all life. Water is also essential for the functioning of food systems: as a key input into food production, but also in processing and preparation, and as a food itself.
Food system innovations and digital technologies to foster productivity growth and rural transformation
This chapter looks at food system innovations and digital technologies as important drivers of productivity growth and improved food and nutrition security.
Advance equitable livelihoods
Food system transformation provides the opportunity to shift current trends in all forms of malnutrition, prioritizing the availability and affordability of nutritious food for all – from shifting priorities in agricultural production, to improved
Financing SDG2 and ending hunger
This chapter focuses on innovation in mechanisms to finance the transformation of food systems to end hunger by 2030 and achieve SDG2.
This collection of essays provides a wealth of information and analysis about the Philippine economy and the role of agriculture and economic policy in it.
Sustaining natural resources in African agriculture: What have we learned in the past two decades?
Calls for increased attention to natural resource management (NRM) in African agriculture have been around for many decades.
In developing countries, a substantial amount of perishable and often highly nutritious commodities, such as fruits and vegetables, are lost after harvest, mainly caused by the lack of key infrastructures, such as electricity and cold chain facili
Repositioning agricultural support policies for achieving China’s 2060 carbon neutrality goal
Agrifood systems are both a contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and an important sector for achieving China’s 2060 carbon neutrality goal and mitigating climate change.