Rural transformation

SIANI Global meeting on the challenges, opportunities, and pathways for transforming food systems to be sustainable, equitable and more resilient. 

The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 provided a crucial forum for discussing how climate change impacts different sectors, and offered an opportunity to explore collaboration to break down silos and strengthen plans for disaster risk management and climate adaptation. 

Summary report, presentations and exercises from SIANI/FAO Workshop:“Discover new Opportunities with the Ex-Ante Carbon Balance Tool”7-8 December 2011, Stockholm

Roughly 7.2 billion people now inhabit the Earth, and by 2050, that number could reach 9.6 billion. Adequately feeding them could require increasing food production by two-thirds or more. In part,...

Next year is the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Despite great progress in some areas, major challenges remain.At the Rio+20 conference, world leaders agreed to draft a...

Meeting the growing demand for food will require a major increase in agricultural production, akin to the Green Revolution that dramatically reduced hunger in the last half-century. The approaches...

Agri4D - 2017 Diverse aquaculture and its societal impacts-roles of South-south learning. Dave Little, University of Stirling, UK

Eric Malezieux, Director Agroecological functioning and Performances of horticultural systems research unit (CIRAD), discussed food security in the low income countries in his talk as keynote...

This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.

Can homegardens remedy food insecurity? And is this agricultural technique a feasible and effective way to deliver on all of its climate and resilience promises?