Food & Nutrition

Proposing a new food utopia

by Christopher Rosin and Paul Stock Since engaging with the issue of global food security in the book, Food Systems Failure (co-edited with Hugh Campbell, Routledge 2012), we have...

The business of nutrition and security (FoodFirst).

As a special surprise the participants of the foodFirst conference will be offered a small treat developed by Too Good To Waste. This enthusiastic group won NCDO’s Battle of the...

Africa and the Global Food Challenge

by Judi W. Wakhungu* Africa has one of the world’s fastest growing populations. But the growth rate of food production has not kept pace, and this has led to a food deficit. The...

The silent ethnicide. The demise of the rural Italian economy

by Michela Zucca Over the last two decades, Italy has gradually shifted from being one of the top agricultural producers and exporter country of high quality refined/processed...

SID Netherlands New Publication: 'Agriculture, Food Security and Inclusive Growth'

In 2011, SID Netherlands, together with the International Institute of Social Studies and supported by NCDO, organised the lecture series Agriculture, Food Security and Inclusive...

FoodFirst Conference on 'Breaking the hunger cycle'.

After less than one year from the food crisis in the Horn of Africa, a new african food crisis is emerging, in the Sahel region. How can we act to avoid further damages and...

Coping with climate change to secure food and livelihoods. by Suman Sahai

by Suman Sahai As the world struggles with successive food crises and turbulence marks the countries that suffer from endemic hunger, there is the new factor of global warming and...

Can the world be fed in a sustainable way? FoodFirst Conference

To feed the world's growing population, global agriculture will have to double its food production by 2050. Can the world be fed in a sustainable way?  Are there ecological...

Cooperatives and development: How to enhance cooperatives performance in Africa? by Situma Mwichabe

by Situma Mwichabe. The cooperative movement brings together over 1 billion people around the world. The UN estimated in 1994 that the livelihood of nearly 3 billion people was...

Farmers' displacement is a matter of life and death!

The Government of India, in its efforts to promote a just and a fair governance, initiated and acted upon several positive enactments in the Parliament such as the Land...

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