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Feeding Senegal: Challenges and innovations in agri-nutrition
Fatimata Kone
Climate change is exacerbating food insecurity in Senegal. However, innovative tools are empowering rural communities to strengthen their food systems. Discover examples of innovation such as the Agri-Nutrition Picture Book and the Food Seasonal Calendar.
Food and nutrition insecurity…
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Why are Kenyan farmers embracing nature and biodiversity?
Sean Mattson
Farmers in a Western Kenyan village are dedicating their land, time and knowledge to restore land productivity with local biodiversity. Why are they positive about nature-based solutions?
LYANAGINGA VILLAGE OF VIGULU, Kenya – First-time visitors to this small community in Vihiga County are…
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Red nacional de mujeres interétnicas para la defensa del medio ambiente. Guía metodológica para mapear la red territorial.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152308
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Esta guía metodologica constituye una herramienta participativa que permite a quien la usa de mapear su red territorial relacionada a una o varias tematicas. Esta guía está destinada a hombres o mujeres productores y/o a lideres territoriales. This methodological guide is a participatory tool that allows those who use it to map their territorial network related to one…
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Seeds of Change: Transforming School Meals with Biofortified Crops in Malawi
In Malawi, the Home-Grown School Feeding Program (HGSFP) - supported by the European Union (EU) and the World Food Programme (WFP) - is transforming nutrition through biofortified crops. From June 25-30 2024, awareness meetings engaged 72 stakeholders in Zomba and Phalombe Districts, emphasizing the benefits of integrating these crops into school meals.…
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Pepsico's green revolution: climate resilience boosts potato program
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152422
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Based on PepsiCo’s extensive grower data, the team developed climate-yield models tailored to supply chain specific needs, creating insights into climate risks and opportunities for potato production. These results were translated into actionable recommendations integrated into PepsiCo’s sustainability roadmaps. PepsiCo used the Climate Resilience Platform, an online tool developed from this project, to identify…
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Major impact investor group mobilizes USD 106 million for a climate-smart food systems strategy designed with Alliance-led CCAFS technical guidance.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152423
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The Alliance provided science-based metrics for designing the Sustainable Food Systems impact investment fund at responsAbility, a major global impact investor. The Fund’s success depends on securing funding. In 2023, the Fund secured USD 106 million from public and private sector impact investors. Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) served…
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Newton Fund PROPOSAL: Exploiting biodiversity in Brachiaria and Panicum tropical forage grasses using forward and reverse genetics to improve livelihoods and sustainability. Proposal original proforma document
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100101
Publication year
2018
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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CIAT. 2018. Newton Fund PROPOSAL:…
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Simple Ways to Boost Benefits of Climate-Smart Agriculture
Although climate change has grown as a public debate since the United Nations’s first ‘Earth Day’ summit in 1972, today it is an undeniable reality, and agriculture is one of the most impacted sectors, with climate variability and extreme weather events – such as flooding and drought – affecting livelihoods and food security. The approach of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA…
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Behavioral determinants of trust and commitment in horticultural cooperatives: Experimental evidence from Rwanda
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152458
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The Rwandan government emphasizes the role of cooperatives in transforming rural economies from subsistence farming to diversified commercial agriculture, including high-value export horticultural crops. The success of these cooperatives depends significantly on farmers' willingness to join and remain committed members. Previous research indicates that Rwandan cooperatives…
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PlaSA Colombia: A data-based systemic approach for transforming food systems
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152457
Publication year
2024
Authors
Castillo, Johana
Rankin, Sara
Gonzalez, Carlos
Full Citation
Castillo, J.; Rankin, S.; Gonzalez, C. (2024) PlaSA Colombia: A data-based systemic approach for transforming food systems. Prepared for Tropentag: Explore opportunities for managing…
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Seeds of change: Unlocking the potential for plant genetic material transfer in agriculture and food systems
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152460
Publication year
2024
Authors
Rivera, Tatiana
Andrade, Robert
Gonzalez, Carolina
Full Citation
Rivera, T.; Andrade, R.; Gonzalez, C. (2024) Seeds of change: Unlocking the potential for plant genetic material transfer in agriculture and food…
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Transforming food and land systems to achieve the SDGs
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152461
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This chapter of ‘The Sustainable Development Report 2024’ presents results of the third, 2023 ‘Scenathon’, in which researchers from 22 countries across all continents, together with the FABLE Secretariat, explored three alternative futures for national and regional food and land-use systems.
Publication year
2024
Authors
Clara, Douzal
Chemarin…
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Experience exchange event: Engendering the water, energy, food, and ecosystems (WEFE) nexus approach to sustainable development
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152380
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The greater the climate change impacts on food and water security, livelihoods, and the environment, the greater our need to work together across disciplines to tackle our shared challenges holistically. The water–energy–food–ecosystems (WEFE) nexus approach is a multi-disciplinary perspective to address complex resource and development challenges that underpin…
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Women are key custodians of biodiversity, and COP16 could strengthen their conservation efforts
Marlène Elias, Miranda Morgan
The participation, voice and leadership of women in conserving biodiversity is critical to reversing the biodiversity crisis. But grassroots women are typically excluded from the decision-making, capacity-building, and finance designed to conserve biodiversity. Participants at the…
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Know what drives the adoption of climate-smart agriculture across different scales
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89090
Abstract
Recognizing successful climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices is not enough for them to be adopted at scale.
At many sites, government or development-led interventions to promote CSA practices face low adoption rates or are not adopted at all.
Data shows that CSA adoption depends on drivers and constraints beyond the CSA practices.…
