Food & Nutrition

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...

People Starve Because Policy Fails!

It is often feared that people's access to livelihoods and resources is more at stake in urban contexts as it can be exacerbated by rural-to-urban migration (people move to cities...

Agriculture, Rural Employment and Inclusive Growth (SID NL Chapter)

SID Netherlands Chapter has recently launched the short lecture series Agriculture, Rural Employment and Inclusive Growth in cooperation with the International Institute of Social...

Sustainable Food and Corporate Retail

by Jayati Ghosh One of the things we really need to remember when looking at the issue of sustainable agriculture is just how much corporate involvement in the process of food...

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