Rural transformation

Despite the recessionary context, much can and needs to be done with existing resources. It seems that it is now or never. Governments should start rethinking how they can reallocate their existing public budgets to make them more cost-effective and efficient in reducing the cost of nutritious foods and increasing the availability and affordability of healthy diets, from sustainable agrifood systems.

Currently, we see the devastating effects on communities in contexts such as Yemen, Syria, Gaza, South Sudan, and Tigray, Ethiopia. All these humanitarian crises include mass starvation and food insecurity, with the use of food as a war strategy

Presented as part of the Side Event at CFS 41: "Collaboration-Led Waste Reduction: From Producer to Consumer".

One-third of all edible food produced is lost or wasted each year. The UN’s proposed Sustainable Development Goal 12 aims at a 50% reduction in food waste per capita at the retail and consumer level and also includes general recommendation on reducing food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.

One-third of all edible food produced is lost or wasted each year. The UN’s proposed Sustainable Development Goal 12 aims at a 50% reduction in food waste per capita at the retail and consumer...

Ildikó Asztalos Morell will give an overview of food poverty and deagrarianisation in rural Hungary. She will discuss the questions like 'Why are Roma underrepresented?' and 'Why is poverty...

The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and Oxfam Southern Africa (Oxfam SAF) are co-convening a Regional Webinar focusing on food security and market access...

New open access book from AgriFoSe2030 on multifunctional land uses in Africa with cases from Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Burkina Faso

It aims to better understand related government policies, programs and institutions while examining implications for universities and research institutions nation-wide.

2015 is the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. There has been a lot of progress done in some areas, but major challenges remain. At the Rio+20 conference world leaders agreed to draft a new set of goals for post-2015 development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).