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.

Small-Scale Irrigation Mapping (SSIM) as a tool for improving and validating irrigated area maps: contextual approach and lessons learnt in Burkina Faso

Other publication / Supporting water management interventions with small-scale irrigation map using satellite data.

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.

Clean and Green

Project / Piloting an innovative rural sanitation framework with the aim to strengthen health and food security.