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Every food item we eat needs water for its production, but different foods require different amount of water.
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19 recording artists. 11 countries. 10 languages. ONE message to African Leaders: Do Agric, It Pays! It is a campaign by ONE.org calling for investment in African agriculture.
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A workshop was conducted in a region of Uganda to explore productivity differences between and within households in order to identify their causes and their effects on food security and the...
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Increasing productivity without compromising environmental sustainability is, perhaps, one of the greatest puzzles of agricultural development. Yet recent research reports provide evidence of stagnating crop yields and regionally variable crop yield patterns globally.
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There is no doubt that energy is embedded in food production, food distribution and food preparation. Yet practitioners in the two sectors tend to work separately without taking into consideration the interdependences of the two development challenges.
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Within the agricultural development sector there are a growing amount of interventions specifically focused on strategies for scaling-up production processes. The concept of scaling-up has almost become a buzzword in many development projects.
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Population growth poses many risks, but it also creates a lot of opportunities, and urban agriculture is one of them. Growing urban population with increasing incomes creates demand for a more diversified diet with a substantial fraction of animal products.
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This document is the background document to the 2014-2015 expert group "Moving Africa Towards a Knowledge Based Bio-economy; How can Sweden assist?"
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The background to the bioeconomy expert group is that progress towards knowledge-based bieconomies is increasingly seen as a path towards sustainable economic growth based on renewable resources. This implies economies moving away from fossil fuels and increasingly utilizing renewable resources as base in all sectors of society, such as industry, energy and transport sectors.