by Sarah Ann Wheeler and Claudia Ringler OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Access to safe, clean water is a basic human right. But water scarcity or barriers to access can cause conflict within and between countries. Fights over water can be expected to intensify as the world warms, evaporation increases and rainfall becomes less predictable. So we’ll need to work even harder
BY LYSIANE LEFEBVRE, VALERIA PIÑEIRO, AND BRIAN MCNAMARA Recent crisis-driven increases in food and nutrition insecurity, coupled with the growing threat of climate change, have highlighted the need for drastic changes in our food systems. In this context, expanding the cultivation and consumption of neglected crops presents a valuable opportunity to improve livelihoods and nutrition and reduce environmental impacts of food
Y HALA ABUSHAMA, ZHE GUO, KHALID SIDDIG, OLIVER KIRUI, KIBROM ABAY, AND LIANGZHI YOU OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The armed conflict that erupted in Sudan in April 2023 has had severe implications for the country’s economy. With disruptions in infrastructure, trade, and agricultural activities, the conflict has led to scarcity of goods, increased food prices, and reduced economic growth. These disruptions
“Food insecurity and undernourishment are deepening lately in the South Asia including Nepal, according to the 2023 Global Food Policy Report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute,” writes Nepal News in a story dedicated to the presentation of the 2023 Global Food Policy Report in Nepal on June 20, 2023. COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war, implications of various natural disasters, energy crisis, global
by Kate Ambler, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Sylvan Herskowitz OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Agricultural value chains (AVCs) are an essential component of food systems—aggregating, processing, and delivering food to retailers. Without them, consumers throughout the world would have little to eat. Yet a set of key value chain actors—firms in their midstreams—are understudied, even as they
by Caroline Miehe, Leocardia Nabwire, Robert Sparrow, David Spielman, and Bjorn Van Campenhout OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Over the next few decades, farmers in sub-Saharan Africa will need to produce more food on less land and under increasingly difficult climatic conditions. The use of climate-smart agricultural practices and improved technologies such as higher-yielding and drought-tolerant crop varieties are thought to
by Gabriela Fretes OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Over the past four decades, countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region have experienced a rapid nutrition transition. Populations have migrated from traditional diets to diets that rely on energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods high in added sugars, sodium, and unhealthy fats. These shifts are linked to higher levels of obesity among all ages and higher burdens
by Charlotte Hebebrand and Joseph Glauber OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations, which started in 1986 and concluded in 1994, advanced trade liberalization and led to the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) stands out as a hallmark, since it brought agriculture—until then mostly not covered by