The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vast inequalities when it comes to food security. But there is an even larger and more concerning crisis waiting for us: global food shortages caused by climate change. According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, total global warming is likely to rise around 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next two
The Alliance in Vietnam has worked on baseline food systems profiles to help address food and nutrition security issues from a consumption rather than a supply standpoint.
In Tunisia, the smallest land plots are overwhelmingly owned by female farmers, which comes with a set of challenges. The first difficulty they face is that large machinery widely used on greater land sizes cannot operate on tiny, uneven, and fragmented land plots. The labor shortage is another challenge for them, as many young people migrate from rural areas to cities, creating a manpower gap and increasing its cost. Female farmers have no other choice than to broadcast seeds and fertilizers manually, the traditional yet painstaking way. They devote a
BY ANISHA MOHAN The severe health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted food systems and upended livelihoods across the globe. South Asia, with its population of almost 2 billion people, accounted for nearly half of all new, known infections worldwide as the second wave battered the region in 2021. While many early expert predictions about dire impacts on economy and poverty
Participating in conference sessions to share our research and learn of others’ projects provides spaces to reflect on gender research for development initiatives. It allows us to compare results across contexts, countries, institutional settings, or partnership modalities, which is key to advance research on gender and intersectional issues in agricultural value chains, and from the Alliance we are contributing to
By: Devinia Princess Akinyi, Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’aIntroduction: Alliance researchers summarize a recent analysis of various climate adaptation practices and recommend further actions to support smallholder farmers.
New research records national policy trends linking fish and other aquatic foods with public health. Researchers call for a systems policy approach to ensure aquatic foods tackle stubborn malnutrition rates. Read more
Hydrologist Wuletawu Abera grew up in a small-scale farming family in Ethiopia, now he’s uncovered findings that could help farmers sequester more carbon in the soil by applying different land management strategies. By: Andrew Wight