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
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
A new study has revealed that hundreds of millions of people living in food-insecure regions face future problems as climate change makes an impact.
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has identified areas where food supplies could be worst hit by climate change. These “hotspots” are located in Africa and
Just giving women the same access as men to agricultural resources could increase production on women’s farms in developing countries by 20 to 30 percent. This could raise total agricultural production in developing countries by 2.5 to 4 percent, which could in turn reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12 to
In the wake of global food security concerns, over 50 national farmers’ and agricultural cooperative organisations from all over the world met today to create the World Farmers Organisation and issue a declaration setting out its objectives. The Organisation represents the united voice of world farmers and cooperatives.
Chairing the meeting on behalf of the African
A new study by Jason Samson, a PhD candidate at McGill University, has looked at the effect of climate change on the world’s population, and how in years to come it will affect migration patterns not just for animals and plants, but for humans too. The results show that it is those least responsible for the problem that are
