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Counting the cost of agricultural support on nature, climate, nutrition, health and equity
KEY MESSAGES
During recent decades, agriculture has developed rapidly in China, ensuring food security and enriching residents’ diets.
The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems.
With rapid improvements in agricultural productivity and residents’ income, China has made remarkable advances in reducing hunger and malnutrition, as well as quality improvements in residents’ diets, witnessed by the progressively increasing cons
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Rethinking agrifood systems for the post-COVID world
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has caused a global public health crisis. It has also severely damaged the world’s agrifood systems.
A recent IFPRI blog pointed to the perils of COVID-19 ravaging rural areas in second and third waves.
I am honored to write the preface for the Southasiadisaster.net issue on “Agriculture, Gender and COVID-19: Impact and Recovery”.
As the impacts of the COVID-19 continue to be felt across the world, the need to address the vulnerabilities of the poor and marginalized is heightened.
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Fix the system!
Millions of people go to bed hungry every night. With enough food on our planet to feed everyone, this need not be the case. The African scientist Jemimah Njuki explains how this could be changed and why women have an important role to play.
The coronavirus pandemic disrupted the global food system and emphasised its structural inequity – from unequal food distribution to workers in the system going hungry.
Every year 27 million babies are born in India. At any time, there is a cohort of over 50 million children under two years old.
When Africa’s women farmers thrive, everyone benefits: the women themselves, the children in whom they invest, the communities that they feed, and the economies to which they contribute.
Community-based childcare centres (CBCCs) are community-managed rural pre-schools serving 45 per cent of the child population. Provision of mid-morning porridge is a key incentive to attend.