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Making a difference in food security and nutrition

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  • COVID-19: Need for CFS Framework for Action in Protracted Crises to Prevent Global Food Emergency

    COVID-19: Need for CFS Framework for Action in Protracted Crises to Prevent Global Food Emergency

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    Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
    Sep 14, 2020
    Radically Transform Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition, a new UN Report Urges

    Radically Transform Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition, a...

    The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE)  warns that the world is falling short on SDG 2 — “Zero Hunger”
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    Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
    Jun 25, 2020
    COVID-19 — Pre-existing gender discrimination provides fertile ground for increased inequality, to…

    COVID-19 — Pre-existing gender discrimination provides fertile grou...

    Evidence from around the world shows that women are disproportionately affected by economic shocks and crises. The COVID-19 pandemic is no…
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    Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
    Jun 10, 2020
    CFS Calls for Building Back Better to Avert a COVID-19 Food Crisis

    CFS Calls for Building Back Better to Avert a COVID-19 Food Crisis

    By Thanawat Tiensin
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    Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
    Jun 2, 2020
    Nutrition — at the heart of good health

    Nutrition — at the heart of good health

    Eradicating malnutrition in all its forms for a healthier world
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    Cordelia Salter
    Apr 6, 2019
    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
    Dec 17, 2018
    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
    Oct 26, 2018
    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
    Oct 15, 2018
    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)
    Mar 28, 2018
    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)
    Mar 27, 2018
    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)
    Mar 26, 2018
    How can we redress gender differences in extension services for farmers?

    How can we redress gender differences in extension services for farmers?

    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)
    Mar 25, 2018
    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)
    Mar 24, 2018

    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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    Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
    Mar 23, 2018
    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)
    Mar 23, 2018
    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)
    Mar 23, 2018
    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)
    Mar 23, 2018
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