The world faces compounding crises in food availability. Efforts in Sierra Leone to address these challenges could serve as a foundation for wider food security initiatives.
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In Canada, where fewer than 10 per cent of kids regularly eat school-provided meals, parents, especially mothers, are left to juggle school lunches, often under major pressure.
Sudan is the site of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with around 25 million people in need of urgent assistance.
For millennia, we’ve selectively bred our crop species to make the plants stronger and better yielding. But we’ll need a different approach to help our food plants weather the changes to come.
Just like fires can contaminate municipal water systems by melting pipes, farms’ and ranches’ water supply systems are at risk. A first-of-its-kind study after the Maui fires explores the harms.
Eating sustainably is more feasible than most realize. These four tips can help reduce the footprint of your kitchen while also helping you live a more healthy life.
Nigeria needs to adopt a multi-faceted approach that addresses the root causes of child malnutrition.
The most comprehensive assessment yet of a powerful greenhouse gas shows which countries are driving the increase, and which ones are successfully cutting emissions.
The University of Cape Town’s new report on the impacts of climate change in South Africa found that heatwaves and water stress will affect jobs, deepen inequality, and increase gender-based violence.
The big question: Would climate engineering like sending reflective particles into the stratosphere or brightening clouds help reduce the national security risks of climate change or make them worse?
Muslims internationally fast during the day in the holy month. But largely-Islamic nations are feeling the effects of climate change, making life harder both during and outside of Ramadan.
Approximately 22% of Malawians are food insecure, partly because of the poor maize harvest in 2023.
In the face of growing social and environmental challenges, organizations in the food and agriculture sector are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration.
New research shows how university garden initiatives can help drive transformative change and nurture a new generation of environmental and socially conscious change-makers.
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
This key fertiliser ingredient is subject to sudden price spikes.
Integrating local and Indigenous knowledge into conservation can help to support diverse diets without compromising biodiversity goals.
Understanding how key dietary nutrients move around the world within traded food gives us a better picture of global population health – and how the wealth gap between countries affects it.
Ghana’s industries need fewer production constraints and more incentives to compete domestically.
Community-centred approaches to urban agriculture have been successful in various parts of the world.
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Food Policy, City St George's, University of London
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Food Systems Research and Partnerships, The University of Melbourne
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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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Climate Scientist and Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
