Rural transformation

While doing my Ph.D. in the 1990s one of my personal concerns was typical of a young Canadian environmentalist exposed almost daily to unsustainable logging of pristine old growth rainforests....

The Save Our Soils seminar provided a platform to address the great challenges we face and highlight the exciting opportunities we have in preserving our soils – from tackling erosion and food...

International deforestation curbing policy infrastructure is well developed. It includes the New York Declaration on Forests, the Bonn Challenge, Initiative 20x20, AFR100 and now also the UN Strategic Plan on Forests 2017-2030, just to mention a few of its components. These are all great, but throwing billions at conservation and afforestation won’t work without making agriculture sustainable and zero-deforestation.

Cheikh Mbow, Adjunct Associate Professor at Michigan State University, USA, on why agroforestry products doesn't reach conventional supply chains

Hand on your heart: Is animal health one of your main considerations when you think about international development cooperation or food security?

Climate change, volatile prices, changing consumption patterns, and increasing competition for agricultural land makes the hard business of farming even more challenging. How do we make our farming systems sustainable and resilient? In search for the answer to this question, we tend to focus on inputs and outputs, forgetting about the people who are at the center of the issue.

Antimicrobials have become one of the most misused medicines. As a result, pathogenic bacteria that cause infectious diseases have started to adapt and have become resistant.

This seminar aims to highlight innovative methodologies in small-scale farming in Sub-Saharan Africa which have demonstrably resulted in transformations in gender relations.The gender...

There is no doubt that young people will transform our food system, but it is always good to have a plan. And it definitely won't hurt if this plan is a creditworthy business ploy.

Thanks to globalization we now can enjoy seafood from all over the world. But with less fish in the sea to catch, someone has to pay for the misdeeds of unsustainable fishing.