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The time is ripe for climate adaptation in agriculture

The time is ripe for climate adaptation in agriculture

By Janny Vos, Director of Strategic Partnerships at CABI
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CABI
Six Ways Agroecology Can Help Shape the Future of Farming

Six Ways Agroecology Can Help Shape the Future of Farming

Addressing the challenges facing our global food system — from rising demand to rising temperatures — requires concerted action from…
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Farming First
Feeding our appetite for food security

Feeding our appetite for food security

By Dr Dennis Rangi — Director General, Development at CABI based in Nairobi, Kenya
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CABI
If Einstein had been a farmer

If Einstein had been a farmer

In a world of climate change, food insecurity and rapid urbanization, just try to imagine for a few minutes what Albert Einstein would be…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Less violation, more innovation

Less violation, more innovation

“Women are never raped, they are part of the rape”: citing this common saying in Pakistan, Ms. Azra Sayeed of the International Development…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Pastoralist women and food security: resourcefulness on the margins?

Pastoralist women and food security: resourcefulness on the margins?

“Here, we have an unique opportunity to be fed on the role of pastoralist women in achieving food security and sustainable development”
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
How can we redress gender differences in extension services for farmers?

How can we redress gender differences in extension services for far...

It is an undeniable fact that women play a key role in striving towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of achieving Zero Hunger by…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Trees of refuge giving back lost chances

Trees of refuge giving back lost chances

You must be out in space if you have not heard about the refugee crisis — a dreadful outcome of many ongoing conflicts, including those in…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

Genetically Modified Crops: Seeds of Hope or Deception?

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the…
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Failure to meet the SDGs is not an option

Failure to meet the SDGs is not an option

written by Dr Dennis Rangi, Director General, Development at CABI
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
A place where the plants come to us

A place where the plants come to us

Lessons from the Singapore experience…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Get involved, involve men

Get involved, involve men

Empowering women has been a topic of discussion for so many years yet you can never get bored of these presentations. Why? Well it’s…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Forests that feed us

Forests that feed us

What they do and how we can help
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Cordelia Salter
Once there was a female farmer who made cheese in Georgia…

Once there was a female farmer who made cheese in Georgia…

During the 43rd Committee on World Food Security (CFS43), participants discussed farmers, ago-entrepreneurs, and family businesses. There…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
You gotta fight… for your right… to food

You gotta fight… for your right… to food

When the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) reformed in 2009 it identified the promotion of the right to food as one of its goals. This…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Data democracy: a new age

Data democracy: a new age

The power of data over our lives is hard to overestimate. It governs how we understand and interact with the modern world, how it is…
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
A cultural heritage under threat and under valued

A cultural heritage under threat and under valued

“Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.” Daniel Quinn
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Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
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