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From agricultural to economic growth: Targeting investments across Africa
(2018-03)
This paper examines whether investment in the agriculture and food sectors in Africa significantly increases overall economic growth and, hence, reduces food and nutrition insecurity. To this end, the study examines the ...
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 ...
The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 2021
(2021-04)
By 2050, the United Nations projects that 68 percent of the world population will live in cities (UN DESA 2019). However, with continuous population growth, the number of people living in rural areas of many low- and ...
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 ...
Food Security Standard (FSS) National Food Security Assessment (NaFSA) tool 1.1
(2020-04-01)
The Food Security Standard (FSS) provides practicable and measurable criteria and tools to ensure the Right to Food on sustainably certified agricultural production sites. The National Food Security Assessment (NaFSA) tool ...
CSR public policies in India´s democracy: ambiguities in the political regulation of corporate conduct
(2017-03)
The rise of public policies in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) suggests
a reassertion of state power over a phenomenon initially designed to weaken public
authorities. But depending on policy objectives ...
The making of the 'Geisteswissenschaften': a case of boundary work?
(2017-06)
The paper is concerned with the making of the German humanities. To address this
topic, the boundary work approach is applied to the late 19th century, a historical
episode that has been crucial for the formation of an ...
Following the problems: das Programm der Nachwuchsforschergruppe "Entdeckung, Erforschung und Bearbeitung gesellschaftlicher Großprobleme"
(2015-09)
Das Verhältnis der Wissenschaft zu ihrer gesellschaftlichen Umwelt beschäftigt nicht
nur die Wissenschaftssoziologie seit geraumer Zeit. Während sich die öffentliche Debatte
um das Bild einer im Elfenbeinturm isolierten ...