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Policy frameworks shaping farming in the EU and beyond are suffering from funding misalignment and fragmented priorities, resulting in ineffective global climate efforts.
Africa’s small-scale aquaculture practitioners need cold storage facilities to stop their fish from going to waste.
Women smallholder farmers need digital platforms to sell their crops, support to get crops certified as organic, and communal places to process food.
Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
Progress on nature-positive farming – but habitats still trail big-ticket technology
Clearing huge tracts of land to plant one crop like maize has degraded land and put healthy food out of the reach of ordinary people. A new book has solutions.
Africa has a hunger crisis: it’s time to change the approach to agriculture.
Agroecology could be an effective way to address food insecurity and respond to the climate crisis. However, significant hurdles remain.
Knowing which parts of Africa best help to store carbon means funding and policy efforts can be directed to protecting and increasing this carbon ‘land sink’.
We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
Hardline positions could narrow the options available to farmers and conservation practitioners in a way that can be harmful to both.
Solve the climate and extinction crises together, or solve neither.
Legumes have a superpower: they can convert nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use to grow.
Cuba’s sustainable approach to farming has protected its rivers from the kind of nutrient pollution that impairs many US waterways.
We all need to eat. Experts imagine how the next agricultural revolution can feed us while fighting climate change and habitat destruction, instead of accelerating it.
We’re not powerless to change the future of food. Nature and technology can combine to nourish both the earth and its inhabitants.
In the Catalan Pyrenees, women shepherds and cattle ranchers try to valorise the ancestral agropastoral culture to save the mountains from climate change.
The food system urgently needs to be redesigned if we are to avoid crisis.
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Developing countries present an opportunity for agroecological innovations to help small-scale farmers.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
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Professor and DSTI/NRF SARChI Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Associate Research Professor of Agroecology, University of Vermont
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Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts & Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Microbial Ecology, Western Sydney University
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Soil Ecologist, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
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Professor of Agroecology, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor, Global Development, Cornell University
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Research Associate, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
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Associate professor, Head of the Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases, Royal Veterinary College
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Research Associate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona