BY HONOR DEARLOVE Over the past several decades, most food systems around the world have evolved to reduce the prevalence of hunger, but many have introduced a new wave of serious dietary health concerns such as obesity. Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat, a new book by Robert Paarlberg, observes that many popular solutions to the
Steven Cole, Catherine Njuguna and Devis Mwakanyamale on learnings from piloting the tool in Tanzania. Women’s involvement in making important intra-household decisions is a key indicator of their empowerment. Most of the quantitative tools available to measure women’s empowerment try to elicit this involvement by asking which decisions spouses make alone or jointly, and if the latter, to what extent
Toolbox for Working with Root, Tuber and Banana Seed Systems Join our launch: Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 15.00-16.00 East African Time Register: https://cipotato.org/event/toolbox-working-root-tuber-banana-seed-systems/ “People don’t think about seed as much as they should. Every living thing we produce starts from some sort of seed. It’s a huge responsibility for seed systems research to take on.” Erik Delaquis, RTB and Alliance
How can increased access to, and use of, high-quality seed translate into enhanced nutrition and income security for ethnic minority communities? A new research project in Vietnam’s Northern highlands aims to answer that question.
BY ELISABETTA AURINO, AULO GELLI, CLEMENT ADAMBA, ISAAC OSEI-AKOTO, HAROLD ALDERMAN AND HONOR DEARLOVE Around the world, 388 million children participate in school meal programs, according to the World Food Programme. In Africa, governments have prioritized these programs as a key safety net; in 2016, the annual Africa Day of School Feeding (March 1) was launched to promote them across the continent.
Lawrence Haddad shares his thoughts inspired by the recent CGIAR-supported paper on persistent myths about African food supply chains. by Lawrence Haddad (Executive Director, GAIN) I love academic papers that use evidence to try and shift stubborn policy perspectives, especially when those policy perspectives seem to be holding back development and hunger reduction. So, it is no surprise that I
This blogpost highlights 2020 research outputs of the WorldFish gender theme as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH). Here, we focus on research examining gender within small-scale fisheries, in particular how social principles emerge and travel, inclusion in biodiversity conservation, and the tracking of gender-sensitive facilitation techniques. Enabling the spread of gender equity The Sustainable
Harnessing aquatic foods through the sustainable growth of aquaculture deserves more attention in responding to the global call to transform food systems toward more nutritious and resilient diets for all, said experts in a recent panel discussion hosted by WorldFish and the Global Panel of Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (GLOPAN). As the world faces the enormous challenge of producing