Food security is an important issue throughout the World. While it is important to maintain food production in a changing environment, it is also important to improve crop yield...
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The world is hotter today than it has been for 12,000 years; the last seven years have been the hottest on record.
On every...
WFP has extensive experience integrating climate risk insurance solutions as an element of financial and social protection. This factsheet provides a summary of the evidence on how WFP-supported microinsurance...
While Southern Africa contributes only 1 percent to global carbon emissions, their temperatures are rising at double the global rate and climate impacts such...
This briefing investigates the ‘driving forces’ or ‘trends’ shaping southern African food systems. The analysis is intended to raise awareness of the potential to shape future outcomes in this complex multi-faceted...
Selected experiences with GMOs in industrialized and developing countries show that the promise of bioengineering for strengthening food security cannot materialize unless and until GMOs are accepted by the vast...
The 2008 global food price crisis, and the resurgence of food prices in 2010–2011, caused both widespread concern and expectations. On the one hand, countries whose food supply...