BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND SARA GUSTAFSON Despite tremendous progress made in the last decade to produce enough food to meet the demands of the growing population, around 811 million people lived in hunger in 2020 and nearly half of the world’s population lacked year-round access to adequate food due to climate change, poverty, and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the
Talk around the U.N. Food System Summit (UNFSS) this week is, quite literally, about how sustainable food systems can emerge from the ground upwards. Given that around 95 percent of all our food originates from soils, how we use and protect soil health is in the UNFSS spotlight. Soil is much more than the dirt beneath our feet. Soil health
CGIAR Regional Director for CWANA and ICARDA’s Director-General Aly Abousabaa and a delegation of ICARDA experts and team leaders met with officials from the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) in Egypt to discuss the agricultural research priorities in Egypt for the next two years. This meeting takes place every year to assess past results and renew commitments for collaboration that align
Strong winds carrying dust clouds from the world’s deserts and marginal drylands – otherwise known as sand and dust storms (SDS) – cause much destruction. They affect dryland farmers’ livelihoods by removing fertile topsoil and smothering crops and livestock. SDS also travel thousands of kilometers to people in cities and towns, creating health complications and bringing transport such as aircraft to a standstill. To limit SDS threats to global drylands’ rural
BY JULIE KURTZ With the approach of the Sept. 23 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), the potential of True Cost Accounting (TCA) for food systems has been a topic of much discussion—including Nature Food’s entire September Focus Issue. TCA is a powerful approach to economic assessment that looks beyond conventional financial metrics of food consumption and production to unveil hidden costs and benefits
What is RapidGen Platform? RapidGen Platform is a state-of-the-art facility that contributes to enhancing genetic gains through speed breeding and modernizing crop breeding by substantially lowering the time and cost of crop varietal development. This is achieved through shortening the crop generational window by speeding up the growth and life cycle of crops. This rhythm is accelerated by the RapidGen
The world is likely to eat twice as much fish and other aquatic foods by 2050 compared to 2015 as demand surges throughout Asia and Africa, according to a new study. Read more
Addressing international delegates at the recent G20 Agricultural Ministers’ Meeting, CGIAR Managing Director of Global Engagement and Innovation Kundhavi Kadiresan highlighted CGIAR’s commitment to providing evidence-based science for the holistic transformation of food systems and CGIAR’s contributions to the upcoming United Nations Food System Summit (UNFSS) and Climate Change Conference (COP26). “We stand ready to support a robust, evidence-based science-policy dialogue. And