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Agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific can be strengthened by tapping on agrifood-tourism linkages. When tourism and agrifood systems interact, both synergies and competition appear. Agriculture...

Climate change and extreme weather events are heightening levels of acute food insecurity and food crises around the world. As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and deals...

IFAD began operations in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in 1978. Our strategy is to invest in rural people, empowering them to increase their food security, improve...

This publication describes climate-smart agriculture case studies that apply the five action points for CSA implementation. The action points are: expanding the evidence base for CSA...

LoCAL (The LoCAL Climate Adaptive Living Facility) has shown that performance-based grants for climate resilience can build local government capacities to handle climate...

In this paper, we use conceptual insights from the actor–network theory (ANT) to explore the role of agroecological innovation systems (AeISs) in the reconfiguration of agricultural practices toward sustainability. AeISs...

Agri-food sectors in the region are experiencing environmental stress and threats to sustainability. A long-standing emphasis on raising production, coupled with constraints on land and water, has had negative...

The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit December 7-8, 2021 comes at a critical time: mid-way through the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action on Nutrition, we...

The nature-based solutions (NbS) concept emerged during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in 2009. It...