For the second year running, Farming First is delighted to announce that the coalition is partnering with Chatham House to promote their food security debate later this year.
This prestigious event, titled “Food Security 2011: Transforming the Production System” will be held at Chatham House on December 14-15 2011, and
Last week in Singapore, leading policymakers and influencers from throughout Asia and the world met to discuss the food security challenges and priorities facing the region at the first International Conference on Asian Food Security (ICAFS), themed ‘Feeding Asia in the 21st Century: Building Urban-Rural Alliances’.
As part of the conference, participants were invited to discuss
East Africa’s agricultural ministers are currently taking part in a week-long Sectoral Council meeting (from August 15-19) in Arusha, Tanzania to discuss the full implementation of the East Africa Community (EAC) Food Security Action Plan (2011-2015).
The EAC Food Security Action Plan has recently been developed, and agreed to by East African heads of states, to
A report published recently by the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service entitled “International Food Security Assessment 2011-21” lays out predictions for global Food Security over the forthcoming decade.
The study found that, despite global food commodity prices, strong domestic food production and low price transmission from global to domestic markets contributed to a decline
“The increase of the world’s population to 9 billion people by 2050, the rise in global calorie intake by 60 percent between 2000 and 2050 due to greater affluence, as well the rising demands on land for the generation of food and fuels, will require significant increases in agricultural productivity in the context of more
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases was successfully launched last friday in Rome as 36 countries met to officially sign up to the Alliance.
The main message that came out of the launch was simple: boosting agriculture, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In an article by Voice of America, Tim Groser, New Zealand’s Minister of
