A new report has been released by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation showing that significant progress has been made towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
The report, Drinking Water Equity, Safety and Sustainability, by the UNICEF/WHO Joint
In October, the U.N Committee on World Food Security (CFS) opened its new session in Rome. CFS serves as a forum in the United Nations System for review and follow-up of policies concerning world food security, including food production and physical and economic access to food.
To coincide with CFS, Farming First organised a side-event on
A group of 19 of the world’s leading organisations (including three United Nations agencies, the World Bank, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), FANRPAN, Farming First, the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) and the World Farmers’ Organisation) have jointly endorsed a letter calling
A new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) titled “What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach” has been published.
The report argues that although irrigation in Africa has the potential to boost agricultural productivities by at least 50 per cent, food production is almost entirely sustained through
A recent publication focussing on water use in production and products has been published by the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
The report states that water used for production, otherwise known as ‘virtual water’, constitutes 95 per cent of human water use. As pressure on global water supplies grows, recognising the amount of
Earlier this year, we interviewed Dr. Jason Clay, Senior Vice-President of Markets at WWF, for Farming First TV. In his interview he talked to us about food security and the need for sustainability in food production – you can watch the interview here.
In his interview, he stressed that we will have to figure out how
