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The year 2013 saw record high numbers for agricultural production and more stable commodity prices than the previous several years, but findings from the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2013 Global Food Policy Report suggest that the state of global nutrition and food security is still fragile. The report focuses on major food policy developments […]

The resettlements connected with the connection of the world’s biggest powerplant – the Three Gorges Dam in China – have received wide media attention since 2007, when 1.3 million people had to leave their homes for the construction of the dam. In Vietnam, the government has started to move people from their villages near the […]

If conventional farming practices remain unchanged it could result in agricultural yield decreases of 10-15% globally in the face of climate change. Experts agree that the world is already committed to a 2°C mean temperature increase, but what happens if the climate changes more dramatically than our modest estimates suggest?  The need for planned agricultural […]

By Kate Langford, ICRAF News As the concept of a landscape approach to food production and poverty alleviation gains momentum, a group of scientists met this week to fine tune just how they will measure the health of landscapes across the globe. “A landscape approach allows us to recognize that ecosystems and people are intertwined,” […]

By Lean Alfred Santos, devex Nearly every year, huge parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are choked by heavy smoke and dust particles — popularly known in the region as “haze” — caused by illegal forest burning and agricultural land clearing that pose serious environmental, health and even economic implications to these Southeast Asian countries. Haze has become […]

The issue: In the Amazon Basin, 70% of people already live in cities and the numbers keep rising as more farmers make the move from rural areas to urban centers. However, this migration is hardly permanent. Even though they may be formally counted as urban dwellers, migrants keep connections to their rural households. They also […]