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Kenya’s GMO policy about-turn was underpinned by improved safeguards on top of a commitment to review each new application on a case-by-case basis.
As droughts intensify, how can we increase crop production in a sustainable way? This is a multidimensional scientific and societal challenge to ensure future food security.
A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
Monitoring and enforcing competition rules is essential to level the playing field for fairer food markets.
Research questions the idea that getting commercial seeds and fertilisers to smallholder farmers will double yields and incomes.
When a pandemic hits, questions that immediately arise include what impact there will be on public health, the economy and other aspects of society. Another set of questions involves response priorities…
It’s time to redesign food systems that deliver healthy foods, allow farming families to make a good living, and support thriving societies.
The potential exists for malnutrition to exacerbate the health consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic.
By using the simple technique of harvesting when the lower leaves begin to turn to yellow, yam farmers can determine the earliest possible time to harvest.
Nigeria recently approved the world’s first GM cowpea, which provides full protection against the pod-borer Maruca, a major problem for this important crop.
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
Developing countries could leapfrog industrial agriculture systems by moving to agroecology.
Foraging and gathering food can play a huge role in feeding people.
Kenya’s new budget is expected to focus on food security, manufacturing, universal health coverage, and affordable housing.
Top contributors
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TJ Higgins is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO
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Professor and DST/NRF Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Associate professor, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Research fellow, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Research Assistant, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Senior Scientist, Agriculture and the Environment, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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Professor & Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods, Rhodes University
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CGIAR System Organization
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Senior Economist, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
