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Bioeconomic Entrepreneurship and Key Factors of Development: Lessons from Argentina
(2022-02-21)
For Argentina, a country with large biomass availability, scientific-technological capacities
and a strong agro-industrial sector, bioeconomy comes with an opportunity for sustainable local and
national development. As ...
A New Paradigm for Plant Nutrition: Food Systems Summit Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit February 10, 2021
(2021-02-10)
The coming 10-20 years will be most critical for making the transition to a global food system in which all stakeholders look at food and nutrients in a holistic manner, including their hidden environmental, health and ...
Pathways to advance agroecology for a successful transformation to sustainable food systems: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit June 2021
(2021-06)
Agroecology is a powerful strategy that reduces the trade-offs between productivity and sustainability. It promotes the diversity of crops and livestock, fields, farms and landscapes that together are key to improve ...
The Transition Steps Needed to Transform Our Food Systems: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 26, 2021
(2021-04-26)
Today’s food systems are asked to nourish the world’s growing population in ways that do no harm to either human or planetary health. However, the growing problems facing food systems now amount to a two-fold crisis. ...
Trade and Sustainable Food Systems: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit June 8, 2021
(2021-06-08)
Trade is an integral part of our food systems. It connects people at all stages of agricultural and food value chains, linking farmers with consumers across the world. It also links nations to each other and thus scales ...
Climate Change and Food Systems: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit, May 2021
(2021-05-01)
Climate change affects the functioning of all the components of food systems, often in ways that exacerbate existing predicaments and inequalities between regions of the world and groups in society. At the same time, food ...
A review of evidence on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit, May 11th 2021
(2021-05-11)
Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems can result in greater food security and better nutrition, and in more just, resilient, and sustainable food systems for all. This paper uses a scoping review ...
Financing SGD2 and Ending Hunger: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit, May 11th, 2021
(2021-05-11)
Among the important tasks of the UNFSS is identifying ways to finance the transformation of the global food system. This report analyses options for financing a specific, but crucial, part of the overall food system ...
Food System Innovations and Digital Technologies to Foster Productivity Growth and Rural Transformation: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit May 2021
(2021-05)
This brief looks at food system innovations and digital technologies as important drivers of productivity growth and improved food and nutrition security. The analysis emphasizes a mix of research feasibility and ...
The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 2021
(2021-04)
Food systems (FS) incorporate nutrition, health, resource use, biodiversity, transformation, jobs and livelihoods that ideally should be under the concept of the SDGs. The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) published since ...
