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Safeguarding and using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 2021
van Zonneveld, Maarten; Volk, Gayle M.; Dulloo, M. Ehsan; Kindt, Roeland; Mayes, Sean; Quintero, Marcela; Choudhury, Dhrupad; Achigan-Dako, Enoch G.; Guarino, Luigi (2021-04)Fruit and vegetable species and varieties, their wild relatives, and pollinators and other associated organisms underpin diverse food production systems and contribute to worldwide health and nutrition. This biodiversity, ... -
Scaling aquaculture for food security and employment in Africa: Insights from Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria
Walakira, John K.; Hinrichsen, Etienne; Tarus, Victoria; Langi, Sandra; Ibrahim, Nabil Ahmad; Badmus, Olanrewaju; Aziz, Andrew; Baumüller, Heike (2023-08)Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world and now accounts for more than half of the fish consumed globally. However, the sector in Africa remains in its infancy, with the notable exception of Egypt, one ... -
Secondary Cities as Catalysts for Nutritious Diets in Low- And Middle-Income Countries: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 2021
van Zutphen, Kesso Gabrielle; Barjolle, Dominique; van den Berg, Sophie; Gavin-Smith, Breda; Kraemer, Klaus; Musard, Capucine; Prytherch, Helen; Six, Johan; Winter, Simon; Woltering, Kris (2021-04)The world is facing a global malnutrition crisis. One in nine people go to bed hungry, more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies whilst one third of the global population is overweight or obese [1]. ... -
Seed System Development: Fertile Grounds In Sub-Saharan Africa: Identifying Options for Sustainable Development
Haluska, Nicholas; Weltzien, Eva; Kergna, Alpha O.; Christinck, Anja; Mulinge, Wellington; Rattunde, Fred (2019-05)Seed is a fundamental resource required for arable agriculture. Seed as an input is critical for enhancing value, productivity and resilience in African agriculture. Sustainable seed systems enable availability, access and ... -
Senegal – Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Faye, Amy; Dièye, Mohamadou; Diakhaté, Pape B.; Bèye, Assane; Sall, Moussa; Diop, Mbaye (2021-01)Located in West Africa, Senegal is classified as a least-developed country that has historically had political stability and slow economic growth compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, from 2012 onward, ... -
Severe climate change risks to food security and nutrition
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Bezner Kerr, Rachel; Hasegawa, Toshihiro; Pradhan, Prajal; Wreford, Anita; Tirado von der Pahlen, Maria Cristina; Gurney-Smith, Helen (2022-12-30)This paper discusses severe risks to food security and nutrition that are linked to ongoing and projected climate change, particularly climate and weather extremes in global warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation. ... -
Shift and Drift in Hazara Ethnic Consciousness: The Impact of Conflict and Migration
Ibrahimi, Niamatullah (2012-09-27)The paper argues that ethnicity and ethnic consciousness among the Hazaras is inexorably linked with the emergence of the Afghan state in the end of the nineteenth century and the crisis and instability that it has gone ... -
Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns: A paper on Action Track 2
Herrero, Mario; Hugas, Marta; Lele, Uma; Wira, Aman; Torero, Maximo (2021-04-07)Action Track 2 works to catalyse a shift in consumer behaviour that will create and build demand for sustainably produced agriand ocean food products, strengthen shorter value chains, promote circular use of food resources, ... -
Silicon Savannah and Smallholder Farming: How can Digitalization Contribute to Sustainable Agricultural Transformation in Africa?
Njuguna, Evelyne; Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina; Mburu, John (2024-05)High hopes are pinned on digitalisation for the much-needed transformation of African agriculture, but there is little empirical evidence on the nature and impact of digitalisation on smallholder farming. Using a novel ... -
Skill Development in Indian Agriculture and Food Processing Sectors: A Scoping Exercise
Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok; von Braun, Joachim (2019-09)The a griculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the majority of whom are not very educated and lack formal or informal skill training. Hence, they are unable ... -
Small-scale irrigation potential in Sub-Saharan Africa: Targeting investments in technologies, locations and institutions
Koo, Jawoo; Olayide, Olawale E.; Sangaré, Saadatou (2019-01)The limited access to water the during dry season or a drought greatly restricts farming opportunities and productivity increases in Sub-Saharan Africa. Irrigation can thus be a promising solution to boost levels of ... -
Smallholder agricultural mechanization in Africa: Addressing governance challenges of state- and market-led mechanization efforts
Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina (2017-08)In the past decade, agricultural mechanization has returned to Africa’s development agenda, which has led to a variety of state and market-led initiatives to promote mechanization. Overwhelming evidence suggests that past ... -
Social Media as a Tool for Transparency and Good Governance in the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Hussain, Yasir (2014-10)This article focuses on a social media initiative of the Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) using the popular social network platform Facebook as a tool to enhance E-Government services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), a ... -
Spatialities of Knowledge in the Neoliberal World Academy: Theory, Practice and 21st Century Legacies of Area Studies
Jackson, Peter A. (2015-04)In order to develop adequate understandings and theories of global modernity it is essential to overcome the intellectual hindrances of Euro-Amerocentrism, which is both an intellectual legacy of imperialism and a very ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Groundwater Storage Changes, Controlling Factors, and Management Options over the Transboundary Indus Basin
Mehmood, Kashif; Tischbein, Bernhard; Flörke, Martina; Usman, Muhammad (2022-10-15)Intensive groundwater abstraction has augmented socio-economic development worldwide but threatens the sustainability of groundwater resources. Spatiotemporal analysis of groundwater storage changes is a prerequisite to ... -
Strategic Positioning and the Reproduction of Inequality: The case of the Johari Shauka of the Kumaon Himalaya, India
Benz, Andreas (2014-11)This paper is concerned with socio-economic inequalities and their (re-)production, empirically inquired for the particular case of the upper Gori valley in the Kumaon Himalaya of India. The strand of so-called reproduction ... -
Strategies d'intensification durable pour le pauvre en milieu rural: Faire correspondre les innovations au potentiel humain et écologique ausein et en dehors du secteur agricole
Baumüller, Heike; Gatzweiler, Franz W.; von Braun, Joachim (2017-03)Les pauvres en milieu rural diffèrent largement en ce qui concerne leurs capacités et le potentiel agro-écologique des zones où ils vivent. Ainsi, l’intensification durable ne constitue pas seulement un autre problème ... -
Strategies for Scaling Agricultural Technologies in Africa
Ajayi, M. Tunde; Oluwole, Fatunbi; Akinbamijo, Yemi (2018)Africa agriculture requires a systematic way of bringing technologies with very high potentials to scale. This book aims to bridge this gap in knowledge, by reviewing the existing knowledge on scaling technologies and ... -
Strengthening Start-Up Ecosystems for Bio-Based Innovations in the Food Sector: Lessons from East Africa
Nyangau, Paul; Abro, Zewdu; Ecuru, Julius; Kassie, Menale; Mukiibi, Shira; Baumüller, Heike; von Braun, Joachim (2024-06)The bioeconomy is emerging as a significant driver of economic growth and sustainability thinking globally and in East Africa. Leveraging bioscience knowledge, tools and techniques, research organisations and start-ups ... -
Study of Selected Livestock Innovations in Ethiopia
Tegegne, Azage; Legese Feye, Getachew (2020-07)Ethiopia is endowed with significant livestock resources and holds the largest livestock population in Africa, estimated at around 60 million cattle, 60 million sheep and goats, 52 million chickens, 4.5 million camels, 10 ...