food security

Five key actions to ensure water and food security in the face of Covid-19

Feature / In a recent webinar, experts weighed in on how water planning can best incorporate the critical uncertainties that pandemics bring.

Webinar: Water and food security in the face of Covid-19: Finding robust solutions

Past event / How can we better understand and plan for the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on water and food security?

Harvesting the sun twice

Project / Enhancing livelihoods in East African agricultural communities through innovations in solar energy.

Accelerating sustainable agriculture in the Mekong

Perspective / To provide for the world in a sustainable way, current agricultural and food systems need transformative action.

Games as boundary objects: charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation

Journal article / This paper describes an inclusive participatory approach engaging multi-stakeholders in decision-making processes in three African agri-food systems.

Why land restoration is key to sustainable prosperity and how to set it on track

Feature / SEI’s Toby Gardner and fellow IPBES researchers outline a 10-pillar strategy for the effective protection and restoration of land.

Innovative technologies for African farmers: Improving smallholder productivity

Past event / Smallholder farmers are under increasing pressure to grow more and better-quality food in a sustainable manner. What innovations can help them achieve that?

One size doesn’t fit all: How to design a user-friendly climate insurance

Perspective / Weather-index insurance can shield smallholder farmers from climate-related disasters, but it's mainly the wealthy who can afford it. How to change that?

Identifying barriers and opportunities for a circular phosphorus economy in the Baltic Sea region

Journal article / This open-access study argues that there is considerable potential to develop a circular economy in phosphorus, but policy support and new research is needed.