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The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture 2015 (GFIA 2015) is the world’s largest exhibition of sustainable agriculture innovations, attracting some of the world’s brightest minds to show the world how game-changing technologies can feed the world.
According to the analysis based on Planetary Boundaries theory, conventional agriculture is responsible for significant biodiversity loss, rising global CO2 emissions and excessive eutro
Do you have an innovation that produces more food while saving water? Send your concept notes to the Securing Water for Food competition, where you will have the chance to win between $100,000 USD and $3,000,000 USD to accelerate the implementation of your innovation.
In an effort to make REDD+ more available to a larger and interested public the Alliance for Global REDD+ Capacity (AGRC) releases an app called the “Cliff Notes for REDD+” by Ecosystem Marketplace.
Agroforestry is taking root in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). It is regarded as both very important for economic development and for reverting the last 20 years of degradation of natural resources.
Clearly, interactions between livestock and people can pose high public health risks. However, keeping animals for food production is an undeniable part of human reality.
SIANI strives for diversity of perspectives and broad actor representation in our network. We are currently working on identifying the ways to involve more youth in the discussion around agricultural development in general and in our network in particular. It was also one of the recommendations that came out of the SIANI Annual Meeting in January 2015.
Energy and food are basic human survival needs. Today three quarters of the people in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) have no access to adequate, reliable and safe energy sources for cooking and heating, and rely on biomass traditional energy forms such as dung, agricultural residues, wood and charcoal.
GreeNudge are researching how principles from behavioural economics, such as “nudging”, can influence decision-making and preferences around sustainable foods. They are now looking for students in Sweden and Norway who would like to assist with the data collection for these studies.