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“A shift towards permanent ‘crisis resilience’ from short-term aid is crucial to mitigate increasingly frequent shocks to the global food system and tackle rising global hunger, say food policy researchers,” writes SciDev.Net in a piece featuring IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Research. “Crises, shocks, and volatility are no longer exceptions and may become the new normal,” says Johan Swinnen, director general of the International Food

Globally, seaweed production has grown by nearly 75 percent in the past decade. What started as a complementary snack in sushi rolls, miso soups, wraps, and salads has become a hot commodity due to its perceived potential and opportunities to mobilize a global revolution for sustainable, healthy, and climate-equitable diets. Read more.

By Prasanna Boddupalli, Director, CGIAR Global Maize Program, CIMMYT & CGIAR Global Maize Breeding Lead Maize production is surging due to its diversified end uses. While it is already the first staple cereal globally, it is expected to emerge as the world’s predominant crop for cultivation and trade in the coming decade. Globally, it serves primarily as animal feed, but

If you visit AfricaRice breeding stations in Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Nigeria and Senegal, you might notice barcodes speckled across the fields, identifying each plant. These are part of the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) barcoding system, that speeds up the upload of breeding data thus increasing the capacity and accuracy of the breeding program to develop new varieties. AfricaRice has joined

On 18 April and now available for rewatch, the Accelerate for Impact Platform invited Neil Crabb, CEO of Frontier IP to showcase success stories of bridging research ideas from lab to market and to join a discussion with the Alliance/CGIAR’s Nekesah Wafullah, Venture Builder Expert A4IP, about how to draw lessons for agricultural technology transfer, highlight synergies and pathways

by Wei Zhang and Ruth Meinzen-Dick OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Freshwater resources such as rivers, lakes, and wetlands are central to ecosystems and sustain the lives and livelihoods of human beings everywhere, and are an integral part of the culture, spirituality, and way of life of local communities. Unfortunately, freshwater resources are under a multitude of stresses around the world—from

Our planet continues to warm due to human activities. According to a UN report, 70 percent of Earth’s land area has been transformed from its natural state due to the construction of settlements, roads and agriculture. Humans are altering the course of rivers, using and discarding plastic indiscriminately, emitting harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and relying on fossil fuels

“The breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine, has for years exported vast quantities of grain through the Black Sea. But after Russia’s invasion disrupted those routes, the EU stepped in, removing tariffs and establishing solidarity lanes, or alternative land routes that would allow Ukrainian cereals to reach other countries by passing through Eastern Europe.” The article adds, “cheap Ukrainian grain entered their