In the lead up to the 2021 Food Systems Summit, SIANI has selected to profile relevant content related to the topic of food systems as well as more practical information related to participation in the summit itself.
Our current diet and food production system is both unhealthy and unsustainable, and it's the major contributing factor to global environmental problems. The EAT Report recommends a universal healthy reference diet, mainly based on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and unsaturated oils , improve food production practices and reduce food loss and waste. But, is the planetary health diet a vegan diet? Does this diet work for everyone?
Highlighting the main opportunities to advance the 2030 Agenda through more inclusive and sustainable food systems, especially through SDG 15: Life on land.
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.
The Stockholm+50 associated event explored the role of agroecology in strengthening the implementation of the three Rio Conventions and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), all the while putting smallholder farmers and indigenous communities at the center.
Discover the main takeaways of the the Stockholm+50 milestone associated event organised by SIANI and AgriFoSe2030 on how agripreneurial youth can build capacities to support sustainable food systems.
Marika Kronberg spent the agroecology day at SLU Alnarp learning more about agroecology at the hands of the renowned Argentinian researcher Pablo Tittonell and a group of master's students in agroecology running Alnarp's Agroecology Farm.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on small livestock producers in low-income countries and worsened food insecurity. Assem Abu Hatab, Lena Krautscheid and Sofia Boqvist,...
SIANI and other partner organisations will organise a series of events supporting Stockholm+50 to showcase further efforts for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals.
The consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on food security and biodiversity go beyond the countries’ borders. The prices of food and other essential agricultural commodities skyrocket...
As stated by the FAO, “Internal and international migrants contribute to agriculture and rural development in many ways, not only by sending remittances or transferring knowledge to their home...