Gender relations shape women’s and men’s identities, norms, rules, and responsibilities. They influence people’s access to, use, and management of land and other natural resources, including ownership, tenure, and user rights to land and forests.
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Pathways from irrigation to prosperity, nutrition and resilience: The case of smallholder irrigation in Mali
Irrigation is increasingly promoted in Africa south of the Sahara, but the benefit streams of small-scale irrigation in Mali remain largely unknown.
We are pleased to announce the inauguration of Crop and Environment, an international peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Elsevier in partnership with Huazhong Agricultural University, China.
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system
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.
The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Evidence on the potential for agricultural intensification to improve nutrition has grown considerably.
Smallholder irrigation technology diffusion in Mali: Insights from stakeholder mapping
Small-scale irrigation has significant potential to increase crop productivity in Mali, in particular given growing climate change impacts on the country and region.
Connected and extracted: Understanding how centrality in the global wheat supply chain affects global hunger using a network approach
While global food trade has allowed countries to buffer against domestic food production shortfalls and gain access to larger markets, engaging in trade has also opened economies up to shocks and increased extraction of food resources.
On the role of water resources management to transform water, energy, food and ecosystem (WEFE) systems in transboundary river basins
The program NEXUS Gains addresses key challenges of transforming water, energy, food and ecosystem (WEFE) systems in transboundary bread-basket basins in East and Southern Africa (Blue Nile and Limpopo basins), Central (Aral Sea basin) and South A
The role of water in transforming food systems
The United Nations Food Systems Summit aimed to chart a path toward transforming food systems toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Hierarchical modelling of small-scale irrigation: Constraints and opportunities for adoption in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper was selected to be included in Water Economics and Policy (WEP) Journal Editors’ choice award for 2022.
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization which came into being in 1997.
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: Lessons from eight landscape-level cases
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in the domain of collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance is slim on policy and investment priorities to leverage the MSP approa
The brief focuses on the achievements of the following three global biodiversity targets from the CBD post-2020 framework (CBD/WG2020/3/3), by 2030 and 2050:
Achieving world food security is more complex nowadays.
The Linked Economic and Animal Systems (LEAS) model is a systems-based analytical approach linked with RIAPA through several handshake variables (price and quantities)