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Ce dilemme ne vous dit peut-être rien, mais il a été une question centrale chez tous ceux qui veillent à la protection de la biodiversité. C’est celui du « land sparing » ou du « land sharing ».
Sweet potato farmers in Uganda.
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Les stratégies de lutte contre le mpox doivent aussi s’attaquer à la cause profonde de l’épidémie de variole simienne en Afrique : les conditions de vente de viande sauvage sur les marchés.
A young hunter displays captured rats for sale, along with other bushmeat, in Cameroon, The country has also been hit by the current mpox outbreak.
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Climate change disrupts community stability, especially when it leads to food shortages and displacement. Governments must work with communities to set up policies to prevent this.
Farmer Takesure Chimbu walks on the bed of the Kapotesa dam in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, dried out by drought.
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The drought is driven by El Niño, an unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that shifts weather patterns.
African countries must urgently green their buildings if they want to cool their cities down. This building in Hamburg, Germany opened in July 2024 with 23,000 trees and shrubs planted in every available space.
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With the climate heating up rapidly, African cities must green every space to cool down and absorb more rain water, minimising floods. Nature-based solutions can make a huge difference.
Dairy cows are prone to getting udder infections.
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Kenya’s smallholder farmers aren’t using antibiotics properly, some are of poor quality and some antibiotics are being found in milk.
The 2016 El Niño drought in Malawi dried out maize fields, leaving only weeds. It caused a famine that left over 60 million people in Southern Africa dependent on food aid.
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Joachim De Weerdt, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; Channing Arndt, CGIAR; James Thurlow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; Jan Duchoslav, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; Joseph Glauber, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) , and Weston Anderson, University of Maryland
Food security experts recommend that rural farmers in Malawi be given access to irrigation systems to free them from reliance on rain, and find ways outside farming to earn an income.
Indonesians are consuming more and more processed foods, including sugary drinks, salty snacks, junk food, and unhealthy fats. These changes take a toll on people’s health, as well as the environment…
Pemerintah semestinya mendukung relokalisasi sistem pangan agar masyarakat setempat memiliki kuasa mengembangkan sistem pangan sendiri sesuai karakteristik kaum masing-masing.
Traditional blue boats moored at the harbour of Essaouira, Morocco.
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Bearing the burden of policies on conservation, together with the impact of out-competition by other sectors within the blue economy, has led to increased poverty in fishing communities.
African farmers need homegrown solutions to improve food security.
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Research Project Manager at the Alliance Bioversity and International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CGIAR and Associate Professor of Production Ecology and Resource Conservation, CGIAR