Food

Few would doubt that agriculture is one of the key sectors of the future – for feeding a growing world population, improving rural livelihoods and reducing poverty. And if managed sustainably, agriculture can help fight climate change and protect biodiversity. Still, the contributions of 500 million family farmers to food security are undervalued. To highlight […]

The projected transition of livestock systems from pure grazing diets to diets supplemented by higher quality feeds will cut greenhouse gas emissions from land use change globally by as much as 23% by 2030, while improving food availability and farmers’ income, shows new IIASA research.  Livestock production is responsible for 12% of human-related greenhouse gas […]

The Outcome Statement includes the 13 recommendations to the UNFCCC and Sustainable Development Goals processes. More than 50 partner organizations developed these policy statements over the two days of the Forum.

Children living in areas of Africa with heavy tree cover tend to have more nutritious diets, adding credence to research showing that forests play a key role in food security, according to a new paper published in Global Environmental Change. Boosting production of such energy-rich crops as rice, maize and wheat is often seen as […]

By Janet Ranganathan The world is projected to hold a whopping 9.6 billion people by 2050. Figuring out how to feed all these people — while also advancing rural development, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting valuable ecosystems — is one of the greatest challenges of our era. So what’s causing the global food challenge, and how can the […]

In Zambia, the weather is changing — the rainy season begins later in the year than it once did, and its duration is now unpredictable, creating confusion about the best time for planting, a U.S.-based farmer told delegates during a presentation delivered on the sidelines of the recent U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. By […]