By Kindie Tesfaye, Faaiqa Hartley, Timothy S. Thomas, Sika Gbegbelegbe, and Sherwin Gabriel Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in the future, and the body of research exploring these challenges is growing rapidly. This note is part of a series developed by the CGIAR Foresight Initiative to summarize what we know today about the future of various aspects of food
With global prices soaring, alternatives to chemical fertilisers can be a big help for small farmers. Our authors present two schemes for locally sourced fertiliser in the State of Odisha in India. For years, small-scale producers around the world have been threatened by rising fertiliser prices. In 2020 there were supply chain disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and
With every record-breaking summer or unprecedented weather event, the need to understand and reduce our carbon emissions grows increasingly urgent. But not all greenhouse gases come from smokestacks and exhaust pipes. From methane bubbles to carbon dioxide diffusion, our planet’s freshwater systems are a significant, if under recognized, source of carbon. How can we better quantify these freshwater emissions? And
By Athanasios Petsakos, Carlo Montes, Diego Pequeno, Benjamin Schiek, and Kai Sonder Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in the future, and the body of research exploring these challenges is growing rapidly. This note is part of a series developed by the CGIAR Foresight Initiative to summarize what we know today about the future of various aspects of food systems.
En la búsqueda de acciones para el cierre de brechas de políticas en Colombia, en la iniciativa Políticas y Estrategias Nacionales(NPS)1 de CGIAR, se encontró con los grandes esfuerzos que hizo el equipo técnico coordinado por Natalia Flórez de la Alianza de Bioversity International y el CIAT. Este grupo posibilitó la construcción de una resolución conjunta entre el Ministerio de
By Ryan Nehring, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Krister Andersson Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are becoming increasingly important in international development research, and especially in natural resource management. They are defined as “purposefully organized interactive processes that bring together stakeholders to participate in dialogue, decision-making and/or implementation regarding actions seeking to address a problem they hold in common or to achieve a goal
Detrás de los alimentos que ves en tu plato hay toda una historia del recorrido que hicieron desde el campo hasta tu mesa y un sinnúmero de personas, condiciones y elementos que intervinieron para que pudiera llegar hasta allí. Estamos hablando no sólo de agricultura, sino también de todos los aspectos económicos, geográficos, políticos, ambientales e incluso sociales y culturales
By Kate Ambler, Jeff Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Eduardo Maruyama Catalyzed by changes to global markets, urbanization, and other trends, agri-food value chains have been growing and changing rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) over the past few decades. Perhaps more than ever, even in the world’s poorest countries, farmers can access high-value consumer markets both domestically and