News and Agenda
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DeSIRA-LIFT: Bridging the Gap for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Food Systems
- Global food systems are facing different crises that are shaking the foundations of food security. From Covid-19 to climate change and regional... -
New guide supports policy makers, researchers and practitioners in making seed sector choices
- What is required to strengthen a seed sector resulting in an increase in the use of quality seed of improved varieties for the crops that smallholder... -
Connecting partners across Africa to guide seed sector transformation
- Ensuring access to quality seeds of varieties that farmers prefer is an essential element of any food system transformation towards sustainable... -
African Food Fellowship connects new generation of leaders for food system change
- How to change food systems in Africa so that everyone has fair access to healthy and sustainable food? The African Food Fellowship brings together a... -
Land, soil and crop information systems support climate-smart agriculture in Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia
- ‘When browsing policies on agricultural development and climate change in East Africa one is likely to find in there the principle of people... -
Positive developments in West-African horticulture
- Professionalising the horticulture sector in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire to improve the quality and safety of fruits and vegetables. That was the... -
Educating a new generation of landscape restoration professionals in Africa
- Half of the world's population suffers from the effects of land degradation. In the global south, the effects are felt most. There is no lack of... -
FNS-REPRO event: Building food system resilience in protracted crises
- This week, 19 to 23 September, Wageningen University & Research and The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are... -
Providing alternative sources for food and income in flood stricken South Sudan
- How to feed a community when what they owned has been flushed away and the way of life as they knew it is no longer possible? Meet William, lecturer... -
Multiplier effect of climate knowledge passed on to policy makers
- How to get a country to invest in environmentally friendly technologies when it’s powered by fossil fuel? Meet Yaser, Assistant professor at the...