Highlights: Lao land use policies favor land sparing over shifting cultivation (SC). Agricultural intensification in Laos did not result in land sparing...
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The traditional rain-fed agriculture system of Ethiopia is suffering from climate change impacts and extremes. It must be improved to feed the growing population and create a resilient society...
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Increasing agricultural productivity growth sustainably is necessary to address the triple challenge of providing sufficient affordable and nutritious food for a growing global population, while...
Food systems exert major pressures on the environment. This paper reviews what is known and not known about environmental impacts along food supply chains, looking...
Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide. Support policies based on subsidies and trade barriers are highly...
Livestock productivity in East Africa, and especially in Tanzania, remains persistently low, while greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensities are among the highest worldwide. This mixed...
The gap between milk demand and domestic supply in Tanzania is large and projected to widen. Meeting such demand through local production of affordable milk presents an opportunity...
This article reviews how food system activities contribute to climate change and how dietary changes affect food systems. It shows that while emissions from food...
This report highlights the importance of assessing emission mitigation from a multi-dimensional perspective. For this, a quantitative framework to analyse the potential contribution of different technological mitigation options in EU agriculture...
This paper analyses the impacts on global agricultural markets of the demand shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the first wave of lockdown measures imposed by the governments in the first semester of 2020...