Rural transformation

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

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

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...

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

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:...

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.

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?

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

Soil has recently made its way into high-level policy mechanisms, such as the Australian National Soil Strategy and the European Union Soil Strategy for 2030, and is gaining ground through the...

The 21st of November is World Fisheries Day, and this year is for the second consecutive year, aquaculture has surpassed capture fisheries by volume. What does this mean for us as consumers?...