The World Bank have produced a new video “Put Food First”, that brings to the front of the global agenda the need to deal with rising food prices, to help the 925 million that go to bed hungry each night.
At the World Bank Open Forum on Food, an expert panel addressed the issue of how to solve the global food crisis in front of an audience of about 120 guests… and streamed live to hundreds more viewers.
FANRPAN CEO and Farming First spokesperson Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda took part in one of the panel sessions,
As food price rises threaten global food security once more, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it will donate $70 million to a new collaboration that will focus on agricultural research projects helping smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia.
The new project will help farmers overcome threats to food production such as crop diseases,
Dr. Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the World Bank Group, discusses his views on the link between between agriculture and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
He says, “We really will fail if we do not incorporate agriculture into the way we think about climate change.” Focusing on the concept of a “triple win”
A new initiative that calls for agriculture to be part of the solution to climate change, and not part of the problem, has been launched at the COP16 climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico.
Over the past two weeks, global leaders and policy makers have been debating a global climate change deal but no concrete agreement has
A growing consensus on the importance of agriculture in achieving the Millennium Development Goals has culminated with the announcement that the World Bank will increase its funding to agriculture to between $6 and $8 billion a year over the next three years.
This is a big increase from the $4.1 billion pledged annually before 2008 and
