Unlocking stronger food systems with African research SciDev.Net interviewed Steven Were Omamo for this recent podcast episode, where he discussed the findings of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report and the urgent need for bold action to avert a looming food crisis in Africa. The report highlights how compounding pressures—climate shocks, conflict, and diminishing international support—are threatening food systems globally, with particularly stark implications for Africa, where vulnerability to overlapping shocks remains high.

DWFI Podcast 43 – Irrigation and Global Health Ag Wired interviewed Claudia Ringler for the Water for Food Podcast about the crucial link between irrigation and global health, expanding on Ringler’s recent Heuermann Lecture during the 2025 Water for Food Global Conference. The episode explored how irrigation can improve health outcomes while also addressing potential unintended negative impacts and how to avoid them when designing irrigation solutions.

What good is in-kind food aid? Devex interviewed Daniel Gilligan for an article on in-kind food aid, highlighting its strong track record of helping families maintain food security and consumption during severe crises and supporting recovery after disasters like drought or conflict. “There is lots of evidence that that has done a lot of good over the years,” he said.

How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria Vox Dev published this article co-authored by Jeffrey Bloem on a recent study of Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflicts. The article discussed how as climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the planting season. New research shows how repeated exposure to violence shifts labor patterns differently by gender and across agricultural seasons, the authors wrote.