Agriculture for Impact will be co-hosting a side event with the Global Panel and FANRPAN at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) event in October. The side event will be held on Wednesday 14th October, 8:30-9:30am, in the Iraq Room. Refreshments will be served. Achieving food security and improved nutrition (undernutrition and obesity) for smallholder farmers… Read more »
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ new report, Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition, followed by a discussion on how the global food system can be leveraged to improve nutrition. This event will define pathways between the food system and health and explore opportunities to incentivize collaboration… Read more »
Thanks to all of you who attended our 2nd London policy night last week. During the discussion, One Acre Fund shared how their work contributes to agricultural development and food security and what lessons and opportunities they offer the new UK Government to expand support in light of the passage of the 0.7% Aid Bill… Read more »
The Agriculture for Impact team will be attending the ONE WORLD – No Hunger event in Berlin on the 24th-25th of March. The BMZ aims to address the greatest challenge facing humankind and to contribute significantly to the eradication of hunger and malnutrition, a top priority shared by the post-2015 agenda and the German G7… Read more »
The Agriculture for Impact team will be attending Global Soil Week in Berlin. This year’s Global Soil Week will highlight the importance of land and soil to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in this the UN designated International Year of Soils. The Global Soil Week 2015 will bring together politicians, scientists from different disciplines, practitioners from… Read more »
Gordon Conway sat on a panel at the Seminar and High-Level Panel on “Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture” in Paris, hosted by the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and Future Earth, the global research platform for environmental change research. The Panel is linked… Read more »
Gordon Conway gave a very well received speech “We are all in the same boat: food production and food security under threat by climate change”at the opening ceremony of the 3rd Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture, held from March 16 to 18, 2015 in Montpellier. It is becoming increasingly obvious that human-induced climate change… Read more »
Gordon Conway is to take part in a session at the AAAS Conference in San Jose entitled ‘Beyond Intensification: Measuring the “Sustainable” in Sustainable Intensification’ Sustainable intensification (SI) provides a useful and widely adopted conceptual framework for achieving the necessary increases in farm productivity while also ensuring support for social and ecological resources. Unlike the… Read more »
On the 20th of January, Gordon Conway gave evidence for the International Development Committee inquiry on jobs and livelihoods. The inquiry is examining the main factors in increasing jobs and improving the livelihoods of those in the developing world in a sustainable and inclusive way. Gordon stated that agriculture is crucial to reducing poverty in rural… Read more »
A4I is pleased to announce the launch of our upcoming Montpellier Panel Report ‘No Ordinary Matter: conserving, restoring & enhancing Africa’s soils’ ahead of World Soil Day. Soils are primarily responsible for providing water and nutrients to crops and animals. When unable to provide these services to their full capacity, crops, animals and the farmers who… Read more »
