Transformative adaptation and implications for transdisciplinary climate change research
The severity of the climate challenge requires a change in the climate response, from an incremental to a more far-reaching and radical transformative one.
The severity of the climate challenge requires a change in the climate response, from an incremental to a more far-reaching and radical transformative one.
The UNFSS Side Event on Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and Food Systems underscored the importance of addressing gender equality to transform food systems.
The UNFSS Dialogue on Women, Work and Food Systems identified a game-changing solution on management of commons: natural resources that are held and used collectively.
According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Report, governments of some 54 countries provide transfers to agriculture totaling about $720 billion annually.
The combination of IFPRI’s cutting-edge research and Japan’s advanced technologies and know-how enable our work with Japan to not only address the current emergencies but also build resilience to future crises and support sustainable development.
The combination of IFPRI’s cutting-edge research and Japan’s advanced technologies and know-how enable our work with Japan to not only address the current emergencies but also build resilience to future crises and support sustainable development.
Les transformations fondamentales dans notre système alimentaire mondial, en partie précipitées par une urbanisation rapide, menacent l’accès des pauvres des zones urbaines à une alimentation saine et aggravent la malnutrition sous toutes ses form
The food system community sees a huge potential for big data in agriculture to lift farmers out of poverty (Patel, 2013), and ensure that parents can feed their children nutritious, diverse foods (Lung’aho, 2018).
This chapter discusses the role of women in agriculture, and the ways in which their status affects the health and nutrition of their households.
This chapter summarizes key findings from recent reviews of evidence of the nutritional impacts of agricultural programs.
This chapter examines the headway that has been made in Malawi in bringing the agriculture sector on board as a partner in addressing malnutrition multisectorally, and the factors that are driving progress.
In this chapter, we make the case for India to shift to a nutrition-focused agricultural sector that goes beyond staple grain productivity to emphasize the production and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods.
This chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture– nutrition linkages. It focuses on two specific aspects of capacity.
This chapter outlines some of the actions that businesses can take to improve nutrition outcomes and what governments and civil society can do to incentivize them to do so.
Throughout most of the 20th century, the main focus of agricultural efforts was addressing food shortages by increasing production.
The global imperative is complex: to support stable, healthy dietary patterns that are environmentally friendly (particularly regarding GHGE) and are acceptable across a range of culturally diverse settings.
This chapter describes three main channels through which changing agriculture can affect nutrition: • the level and stability of real income and purchasing power among poor people; • the relative cost and difficulty of acquiring more nutritious fo
This chapter presents selected evidence on the impact of safety nets on agriculture and nutrition separately, examines trends in the development of more integrated programs, and outlines key areas of potential and challenges to better harnessing s
This chapter characterizes the biodiversity on the planet and stresses the importance of biodiversity for agriculture.