Urbanisation is changing food systems globally, and in particular in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This transformation can affect rural livelihoods in multiple ways. Evidence on what enabling...
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Mitigation of food waste is key to attaining global environmental goals.
Global pattern of food waste is evolving rapidly.
Households’ uneaten calories have leveled...
Childhood undernutrition manifests itself in various ways including stunting, wasting, underweight, and micronutrient deficiencies. Stunting (being too short for the child’s age) captures a state...
South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. The people of South Asia are living through a "new climate normal," where intensifying heat...
Transforming agriculture in Asia
Evolving demand even as food insecurity persists
Rising incomes and urbanization are transforming food consumption. Daily energy consumption per...
This introduction to a special section describes how a recently developed measure, the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) can be used to assess empowerment impacts...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and other global nutrition and health agencies recommend nutrition actions throughout the life-course to address malnutrition in all its forms. As global...
Shifting cultivation continues to be viewed as a rudimentary agricultural practice with little economic viability, a major cause of deforestation and environmental degradation, and a hurdle for development of the uplands. This view...
Over recent decades, South Asia has made remarkable progress in improving the health of mothers and children. But the year 2020 brought a great shock to South Asia...
In this position paper (2021), CIRAD analyses that food systems are at the crossroads between the major challenges for humanity – food, health, jobs and the environment and are a crucial...