Rural transformation
One of the plant’s genes has been “edited”, so to speak, using CRISPR/Cas9 technology in which a small part of the DNA has been removed.
On the first of December, the Focali-SIANI Dialogue Forum in collaboration with partners from science, civil society and Sida are organising a global online exchange on a Human Rights-based...
Why do Thai farmers work hard and are yet still poor? Why depression and helplessness are usually in the thoughts of Thai farmers? Is there a way to make any change? These are questions that I kept asking to myself since to be a rice farmer would be my dream job!
Not far from the University of Agricultural Sciences in Southern Sweden, Alnarp’s Agroecology Farm stands as an example of the power of community-driven, agricological farming. Established in...
According to FAO’s data about one third of all edible food that we produce is lost or wasted. Food waste is a fundamental moral dilemma because in the world with a growing population and 800 million of chronically food insecure people, it is an inexcusable to waste food and resources.
On the 10th of September 2014 there will be a seminar at the University of Gothenburg: "Securing Forest and Community Land Rights - Challenges, Trends and Ways Forward" with the aim to contribute to knowledge sharing and discuss ways forward and concrete roles that different actors can play to advance forests and community land rights.
What advantages does perennial grain cropping entails? What is needed to grow more of these crops? Join this webinar from the UNFSS to find out.
“Quality, happiness and sustainability are all equal parts of the happiness puzzle.” This is the motto of Flemming and Mette, a sympathetic Danish couple. In the fall of 2016 chef Flemming...
Our current diet and food production system is both unhealthy and unsustainable, and it's the major contributing factor to global environmental problems. The EAT Report recommends a universal healthy reference diet, mainly based on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and unsaturated oils , improve food production practices and reduce food loss and waste. But, is the planetary health diet a vegan diet? Does this diet work for everyone?
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2020. The prize acknowledges how hunger is connected to peace and provides momentum for the global community fighting hunger in the important years ahead.