A4I hosted a side event at the World Food Prize ‘No Ordinary Matter: A Prelude to A Montpellier Panel Report on Enhancing Africa’s Soils’ on Thursday the 16th of October 2014. Soils are primarily responsible for providing water and nutrients to crops and animals. When unable to provide these services to their full capacity, crops,… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Food Security
COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD SECURITY (CFS) 41
A4I attended the CFS 41 event at the FAO in Rome and collaborated with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) for this breakout session on ‘Linking smallholders to markets: lessons from working models’ on Wednesday the 15th of October from 6.00-7.30pm in the Iran room. Click here to read ‘Scaling up- scaling up: food security, smallholder farmers & markets‘ a summary… Read more »
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT: CHALLENGE OR OPPORTUNITY?
Gordon Conway writes for the Huffington Post 2014 is the AU year of Agriculture and Food Security. As African leaders gather at the end of this month in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, for the 23rd African Union (AU) Summit, they have an opportunity to make good on their 2003 promise to allocate ten percent of their… Read more »
AFRICAN GREEN REVOLUTION FORUM
Agriculture for Impact will be hosting a side event to discuss our report at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) at 12.30pm on the 3rd of September. Come and find us if you are at the conference and join in the conversation! The AGRFseeks to deliver the objective of the AU Year of Agriculture and Food… Read more »
SMALL AND GROWING: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2014)
In 2012, sub-Saharan African countries spent $37.7 billion on food imports. Rising levels of unemployment, coupled with sustained poverty, continued food and nutrition insecurity, and an unsustainable use of natural resources remain immense challenges. Yet they also offer equally immense opportunities. The latest report from the Montpellier Panel– an eminent group of European and African… Read more »
BUILDING RESILIENCE FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
The Agriculture for Impact team attended the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” conference from the 15-17 May 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Experts from academia, NGOs, the private sector and government gathered for the conference organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Speakers include Per Pinstrup-Anderson, Cornell University… Read more »
EMPOWERING AGRICULTURE – GORDON CONWAY AT THE GLOBAL FORUM FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Experts from across the world gathered in Berlin to attend the GFFA to discuss the development of a more resilient and productive agriculture sector. Gordon Conway and Katrin Glatzel attended the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin in January. Professor Conway participated in the kick-off event alongside Montpellier Panel member Joachim von Braun(University Bonn), Howard Shapiro (UC… Read more »
INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION IN AFRICA (2013)
This Montpellier Panel report was launched at the World Food Prize in October 2013. It is co-authored by Calestous Juma (Harvard University), Ramadjita Tabo (Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa) and Katy Wilson (Agriculture for Impact). Why innovation? Innovation is at the heart of sustainable intensification, helping African smallholder farmers produce more with less impact… Read more »
CAN WE FEED THE WORLD: A POLICY BRIEFING (2012)
In a policy briefing by Gordon Conway based on his book, “One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed The World?” Conway addresses the broad goal of helping the one billion people who face food insecurity today. He outlines the most critical areas of policy change needed to increase food production, stabilize the environment and reduce poverty…. Read more »
CAN WE FEED THE WORLD: FACTS AND FIGURES (2012)
Perhaps you know that the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that there are 868 million people chronically hungry in the world. But did you know that 1 in 3 children in developing countries suffer from stunted growth because they are malnourished? This and other facts and figures from Gordon Conway’s recently released book, One Billion… Read more »
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