Climate change and conflict
Since 2015, SIANI has collaborated with its expert groups to contribute to a holistic understanding of emerging issues and foster regional action and collaboration. Many of these groups remain connected to the network years later and continue making meaningful change in their regions. SIANI has followed up on some of these impacts below.
This brief outlines the need to reduce reliance on synthetic pesticides, emphasising agroecology and agroforestry as sustainable alternatives.
SIANI’s annual meeting 2025 took place in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing together SIANI members to discuss how to transform our food systems to become more inclusive and resilient in times of recurring and protracted crises.
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The SIANI expert group, Drylands Agroforestry in East Africa, offers solutions that can improve food security in a region hard hit by climate change.
Achieving food and nutrition security in fragile contexts requires transitioning from short-term humanitarian aid to long-term resilience-building strategies.
Violent conflict is a significant threat to both food security and biodiversity, according to SIANI’s expert group Land Rights in Latin America. The group recently held a side event on the topic...
Africa is one of the most targeted areas where international actors invest in carbon forestry projects as a way to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions.
What is carbon forestry? Tree planting in the Global South for carbon offsetting, so-called carbon forestry, has grown dramatically. The idea is that trees with the ability to capture and store...
The paper explores why nearly 40 percent of Latin Americans experience moderate to severe food insecurity.
Currently, we see the devastating effects on communities in contexts such as Yemen, Syria, Gaza, South Sudan, and Tigray, Ethiopia. All these humanitarian crises include mass starvation and food insecurity, with the use of food as a war strategy
The report describes pressing issues related to food security, land rights and climate change.