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Solar irrigation holds huge promise for food security, income generation and climate resilience in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. But the rise in solar pumping also carries some risks. If pumps are undersized, they will not be able to provide farmers with enough water. If they are oversized, they risk over-abstraction of groundwater and underuse of what are expensive assets.
By Dolapo Enahoro, Charles Mensah, and Sika Gbegbelegbe 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. The goal of these
By Nhuong Tran, Harold Glenn Valera, Chin Yee Chan, Valerien Pede, Yee Mon Aung 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
The CGIAR Foresight Initiative held its first Partnership Forum By Keith Wiebe, Elisabetta Gotor, and Evgeniya Anisimova Two generations ago, the challenge facing agriculture was daunting but clear: the world needed to rapidly increase staple food production to meet rising demand. That goal was met – staple food production grew 50 percent faster than population over the past half century.
PlaSA Colombia, the country’s first food systems monitoring platform was officially launched together with a group of national experts. Click to read the Spanish version The national launch of the Food Systems Platform – PlaSA Colombia, developed within the framework of the National Policies and Strategies initiative, took place on April 27th at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota.
PlaSA Colombia, la primera plataforma de monitoreo de sistemas alimentarios del país fue presentada oficialmente junto a un grupo de expertos nacionales. Click to read the English version El lanzamiento nacional de la Plataforma de Sistemas Alimentarios – PlaSA Colombia desarrollada en el marco de la iniciativa de Políticas y Estrategias Nacionales, se llevó a cabo el pasado 27 de
Click to read the Spanish version On April 27, 2023, the launch of the PlaSA Colombia platform took place at the Los Andes University, Bogota Colombia, with the support of the CGIAR initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS), under the leadership of the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) in Colombia. This launch allowed a