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Delivering seeds of change to smallholder farmers
Improved seeds and traits are central to many developing countries’ national strategies for agricultural development and economic growth.
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Healthy soils for global sustainable development
It takes millennia to develop fertile soils, but according to authors of a chapter on soils in the 2016 GFPR, we are losing 75 billion tons of soil globally each year, with impacts that not only hurt poor farmers, but extend well beyond the farm.
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Food security and nutrition in the 2016 globalized economy
Guest post by Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, co-founder and Chief Executive at the ICTSD.
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Harnessing value chains to improve food systems
Chapter 6 of the 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights the need to adapt food systems to support nutritious and sustainably-produced diets.
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Measuring food loss and waste
The global food system puts significant pressure on the world’s natural resources and is a major contributor of GHG emissions. At the same time, a large amount of the food produced by this system is either lost or wasted each year.
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Taking charge of their own development
UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 calls for the global community to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Speaking at a recent panel discussion held at IFPRI’s home office, John Coonrod, executive vice president of The Hunger […]
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Global Food Policy Report calls for improved global food system
According to IFPRI’s 2016 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR), launched in Washington, DC last week, achieving the ambitious aims of the SDGs
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Small farmers can help meet sustainable development and climate goals—but they need our support
Smallholder farmers have a vital role to play in global food security and nutrition, and in supporting a range of development and climate change goals.
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Three steps for tackling food loss and waste
An astounding one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted between the farm and the fork. Just think about that for a moment.
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2016 Global Food Policy Report: Toward a more sustainable food system
At the recent launch of the 2016 Global Food Policy Report in Washington, DC, IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan saw something of a mixed bag for global food security leading into 2016. On the positive side, the international development community made major strides in 2015 in securing the passage of the UN Sustainable Development Goals […]