This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...
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Amid a worsening climate crisis and slow progress in cutting greenhouse gases, sustainable agrifood systems practices can help countries and communities to adapt, build resilience...
Highlights: This year, the publication highlights the impact of disasters on agriculture and quantifies the magnitude of losses resulting from these events. Data on the cost and affordability of a healthy diet, which have...
Highlights: Focus on agriculture Four areas are highlighted to ensure productive and resilient ecosystems for subsistence farmers through the economically important cash crop ‑ cocoa...
For decades, global coffee consumption has grown, as tastes and offerings for consumers have increased around the world, and global demand for coffee will continue to grow in the years...
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The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change found that methane emissions from all human activities contributed about 0.5°C to the present observed...
Crop diseases affect crop yield and quality and cause significant losses of total food production worldwide. With the ever-increasing world population and decreasing land and water resources...
Achieving food-system sustainability is a multidimensional challenge. In China, a doubling of crop production since 1990 has compromised other dimensions of sustainability. Although the country is promoting various interventions...
Smallholder farmers struggle to achieve food security in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is urgently required to find appropriate practices for enhancing crop production...
Sustainable food systems require malnutrition and climate change to be addressed in parallel. Here, we estimate the non-CO 2 greenhouse gas emissions resulting from closing...