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Forskning visar att ett av de mest effektiva sätten att minska fattigdom i utvecklingsländer är att investera i dessa länders jordbrukssektorer. Lyckade investeringar av detta slag möjliggör stärkt livsmedelsförsörjning på både landsbygd och i urbana områden och säkrar även bönders inkomstmöjligheter.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on reducing poverty have been met by many countries, yet many others lag behind and the post-2015 challenge will be the full eradication of poverty and hunger.
In October 2014, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to conduct a study on Sustainable Agricultural Development for Food Security and Nutrition, including the role of Livestock. The findings of this study will feed into CFS 43 Plenary session (October 2016).
The theme for this year’s World Food Day 2015, on 16 October, is Social Protection and Agriculture: Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty. The official celebration is being hosted at this y
Win a trip to the 3rd European Forest Week in Engelberg, Switzerland!
Caroline Ochieng represented SEI and SIANI at the World Forestry Congress 2015 as panelist in a session on food security and nutrition. Here, she sums up the main lessons she took away from the world’s most important forestry event.
Almost every article about food security starts with the statement that we will have to increase food production by at least 50% in order to be able to meet the future food demands of the planet’s booming population.
The new brief draws together SEI research done between 2011 and 2014 on agribusiness developments – especially of oil palm – in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It presents overarching insights from that work, along with recommendations for how the industry could be governed more sustainably and aligned more closely with the interests of lo
The Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, an SEI partner, launches key report at the 70th United Nations General Assembly. The report, titled The Value of Land, is a comprehensive assessment of land