At the 15th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), representatives from politics and business, science and civil society discussed viable strategies to achieve food security against the background of multiple…

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This report analyses current and emerging drivers of agrifood systems and their possible future trends. It identifies the issues at stake and the threats and problems that have an impact on future food consumption and…

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Big sums of money are flowing into food and farming, but it is still going to the wrong places. A recent UN report points to the vast majority of agricultural subsidies being environmentally harmful. Fertiliser subsidies…

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Outsourced costs, i.e. externalities such as water pollution and biodiversity loss, are not shown on company balance

sheets, nor are they reflected in food prices. As a result, they provide the wrong incentives for…

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Global food and agricultural policies are, by and large, not fit to support agri-food systems in sustainably delivering food

security and adequate nutrition for all. World-wide economic growth prospects are bleak, and…

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Often, the business models of classic financial service providers are not tailored to the special needs of farmers,

especially those of small-scale farmers. A number of other models have evolved in which the actors from…

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While financial products and systems have been improved in many urban areas of the Global South, their provision

is lagging behind severely in the rural regions. It has been estimated that an annual capital volume of…

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The 2003 Maputo Declaration aimed at boosting African agriculture requires governments to make difficult decisions on

budget priorities. Furthermore, tracking the progress of the initiative presents problems. Our author…

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The potential the African food sector holds is still far too strongly associated with the continent’s natural resources,

Ben Leyka maintains. He seeks to change this with the African Agri Council.

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Creating resilient food systems for people vulnerable to droughts calls for solutions triggering transformation. A number

of multilateral funds have been established to generate sustainable benefits in this context. Our…

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