Cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is essential for ensuring food security over the long run. Climate impacts such as rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and extreme weather will limit the agricultural production needed to feed a growing global population.
In Ethiopia, researchers and partners tested a new way to scale agricultural innovation. By bundling technology, skills, and social change, they show how farming systems can work better for women and build resilience.
At the Duduville Campus in Nairobi, a remarkable convergence of science, partnership, and entrepreneurship unfolded as Hon Randeep Sarai, Canada’s Secretary of State for International Development visited alongside H.E. Joshua Tabah, Canadian High Commissioner to Kenya, and Sophie Price, Head of Cooperation.
Latin America feeds the world, yet healthy diets are out of reach for most in the region, and the region also has the widest gender gap in food insecurity, with women facing much higher food insecurity than men as compared to other regions of the world. At the same time, the region produces significantly more sugar than needed as compared to the recommended dietary guidelines. What is the state of diets in LAC and what are we doing about it?
In southern Senegal, in the department of Goudomp, the market garden of the GIE Malouthiandi in Anice has become a concrete symbol of women’s resilience. This transformation is part of the AVENIR project, funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by MEDA in collaboration with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. The rehabilitation of the fence, the establishment of a living melliferous hedge, and the reconnection of irrigation basins have strengthened site security and water management. In a country where agriculture accounts for about 17 percent of GDP and where women make up nearly 40 percent of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa the daily work of the women in Anice shows that appropriate infrastructure combined with structured technical support can sustainably transform household food security and economic autonomy.
The Italian headquarters of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM Bari) and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (Alliance) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration in advancing food security, nutrition, and sustainable agri-food systems.
In 2014, the beginning fit in the palm of a hand. Five grams of durum wheat seed, the weight of a few paperclips, poured into a small packet after a visit to the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute genebank. Starting from five grams poses a multiplication problem. Seed has to become more seed before it can become bread. That meant seasons of restraint, the kind that isn’t romantic when the hungry months arrive and the grain store starts to echo.
As global food systems face escalating pressures from climate change, economic instability, and demographic shifts, the need for systemic transformation has become increasingly urgent. These dynamics framed high-level discussions at the Africa Exchange Kenya launch of the EAT–Lancet Commission 2.0 Report, where stakeholders examined pathways towards sustainable, resilient, and equitable food systems in Africa.