BY JESSICA LEIGHT AND NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to prolonged school closures around the world that have disrupted the educational progression of hundreds of millions of students. According to UNESCO, these closures peaked around June 2020, at which point 50% of all students worldwide—more than 800 million—were out of school. Particularly in developing countries, where
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Small-scale fisheries are vital to the life and livelihoods of millions of people around the world. However, catches from these types of fisheries are often informal and underreported, leaving their contributions to global food security and sustainable development persistently undervalued. Read more
WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in aquatic food systems research and innovation for healthy people and planet, and science and partnerships are the foundation of our work. Our team delivers robust evidence to policymakers and technological innovations to producers, supply chain actors and consumers in order to transform food systems. In
BY SWATI MALHOTRA The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade of food and farm products, and the agricultural sector is under immense pressure to overcome trade barriers while also responding to climate change. With ongoing tensions between major economies and with current structural impacts in trade and food security, the upcoming (and now twice-postponed due to the pandemic) 12th WTO Ministerial Conference is
The recent UN Food Systems Summit and COP26 generated a consensus around the urgent need to reshape food systems that can deliver diets to everyone that are healthy, safe, secure and sustainable. The challenge now for world leaders and policymakers is to turn these aspirations into realistic policies and actions on the ground…or, indeed, in the water. Aquatic foods and
While the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) is exploring the co-design of a 2022-24 Science Forum series on Innovation in support of the One CGIAR Research and Innovation Strategy and Initiative portfolio, it is worth recalling the last Science Forum (SF18), themed: “Win more, lose less: Capturing synergies between SDGs through agricultural research.” SF18 was organized by the Independent
Frans Schapendonk, Giulia Caroli, Alice Taylor, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach Climate change has and will continue to profoundly impact our world in complex ways, impacting our communities, economies, landscapes and politics. Our modern world is becoming increasingly interconnected, with knock on effects, such as those witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Climate effects have the potential to spill over with multiple