Food systems

This years State of Food and Agriculture builds on the findings of the 2023 edition, delving deeper into the use of true cost accounting assessments of agrifood systems and identifying policy interventions aimed at…

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Food systems

A new report explores innovative technologies that could help tackle global agrifood challenges. It highlights 20 selected technologies, from 3D food printing to circular agriculture, showing how tailored combinations…

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Food systems

At the Africa Food Systems Forum 2024, global leaders and experts tackled pressing issues such as climate impacts on smallholder farmers, the need for sustainable investments and the importance of empowering women and…

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Food systems

Whereas attendance is growing with each new international climate event, this has hardly contributed to more being done to combat climate change. Our author argues that instead of spending millions on raising false…

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Food systems

Food systems in Africa need to be developed in a way that is climate resilient and ecologically sustainable in the long term. The continent must move away from the current “business as usual” trajectory. This report…

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Food systems

Transforming food systems around the world would lead to socio-economic benefits summing up to trillions of US dollars a year, a new global policy report produced by economists and scientists of the Food System Economics…

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Food systems

The international community is still far from achieving the goals it set itself for 2030 in combating hunger and poverty. At the 16th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in mid-January, ways were discussed to…

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Food systems

Endorsement of a new Declaration at COP28 will help in strengthening food systems, building resilience to climate change, reducing global emissions, and contributing to the global fight against hunger, aligned with the…

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Food systems

Transformation of agrifood systems is an important contribution to climate action, FAO says, as the world meets at COP28. At the conference, details of the loss and damage fund will discussed, and the first global…

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Food systems

The hidden costs in agrifood systems are high, while low-income countries are proportionately hardest hit. A more regular and detailed analysis of these costs are needed, followed by mitigation measures, a new FAO report…

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