Rural transformation

Hans-Olof Ståhlgren, Coordinator for The Swedish Rural Network, speaks about youth inclusion at SIANI Annual Meeting 2020.

A great deal of the World Congress on Agroforestry, held last week in New Delhi, focused on business: How to link smallholders to markets? How to make agroforestry profitable? How to engage major corporations? How to guarantee social and environmental sustainability while making money?

Policy recommendations provided by the World Committee on Food Security (CFS) are not legally binding; implementation is up to country members. But let’s skip the talks about why this should be done at all and imagine that all politicians agreed to actively take the CFS recommendations forward.

There is a renewed interest in the role of agriculture at the climate change negotiations, as evidenced by a number of interesting side-events during COP 16 in Cancun. The reason is simple:...

IFAD’s latest Climate Action Report urges focusing on adaptation, integrating people, nature and food systems, and mobilising climate finance.

Poor countries and vulnerable people are being hit by a barrage of economic, environmental, and political shocks, and these shocks are becoming more frequent and intense. There is a general...

First-ever global-level estimation of the impact of disasters on agriculture and food security showcases opportunities for proactively addressing risks in agriculture.

This policy brief provides findings and recommendations from the Triple-L research initiative how to build resilience among pastoralists in West Pokot, Kenya.

Very seldom forest communities are treated as true partners in project development together with organizations, companies or the government.

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