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By addressing supply-chain constraints and food-environment weaknesses, the Leadership to Ensure Adequate Nutrition (LEAN) project implemented by a consortium of NGOs including Helvetas has triggered positive changes to…

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The 9th World Water Forum was held in Senegal’s capital of Dakar from the 21st to the 25th March. It acts as a preparatory conference for the UN Water Conference planned for 2023 and has met with considerable interest…

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With a new cross-regional initiative, GIZ takes up the challenge of reducing post-harvest losses through innovations within the Global Agricultural Policy and Innovation Fund. A virtual innovation platform and a hybrid…

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With a marine offensive against environmental pollution, the German Federal Government seeks to promote the conservation of marine biodiversity and take steps to counter a further littering of the seas. This was…

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The Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is launching a new development research programme with a long-standing partner, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The programme supports high-level…

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One of the expert panels at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) dealt with the topic: ‘Beyond policy change: using the VGGT to secure tenure rights for farmers’ and revolved around the question of how…

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Global food production depends 90 per cent on soil. World-wide, however, intensive agriculture and climate change are putting pressure on the ecosystem. This topic was at the centre of this year’s Global Forum for Food…

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In many countries in the Global South, malnutrition is a cross-cutting issue with economic, societal and environmental impacts. Via an SDC-funded project carried out by IFOAM – Organics International, hundreds of…

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In 2018, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). A coalition of Swiss NGOs are working for UNDROP’s implementation in and by Switzerland.…

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In most of Sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural extension models have become more complex and rely on effective farmer-to-farmer learning, while increasingly including non-traditional forms of education. In cooperation with…

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