This Friday (24 June), a new global research alliance of 36 national governments will officially be launched at a signing ceremony in Rome.
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases will look to find ways of increasing food production without increasing greenhouse gas emissions by coordinating the world’s top scientists in agricultural emissions research and
A new project on climate change mitigation and agricultural projects in Latin America and the Caribbean has been launched, which will bring together a consortium of research institutions and funders.
The Government of New Zealand, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (Fontagro, for its initials in Spanish) have signed an agreement
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
The Global Harvest Initiative has published the first of five policy briefs that address the need for action on global hunger and food security. Building from recent GHI research that suggests the rate of agricultural productivity must increase at a minimum of 24% per year to meet demand over the next 40 years, the policy
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
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
