Destocking as a drought mitigation strategy exposes smallholder cattle farmers to adverse effects, including the distortion of farm planning and income loss, as cattle are sold off regardless of the market price. Factors ...
NON-TECHNICHAL SUMMARY. We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change
research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability
and implications of overshooting ...
Large-scale land acquisitions in Africa are increasing, reported often as the transfers of land for food and biofuel crop production. Only reporting agricultural acquisitions underplays potential impacts of other forms of ...
Food safety has become an important international public health and economic issue since the first and only publication of global estimates on the burden of food borne diseases by the World Food Organisation in 2015. The ...
Just transitions – responses to environmental change that minimise negative impacts on the most affected people and places, while ensuring nobody is left behind – are gaining scholarly and policy significance in areas ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to small- and medium-sized agrifood
enterprises (SMAEs) in developing countries. However, research investigating what risks
Covid-19 posed to these firms, how they ...
The paucity of literature on the influence of land tenure across a range of food
insecurity outcomes may impede a complete analysis in developing countries. This
paper examines the association between land tenure and ...
Hendriks, Sheryl L.; De Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Herrero Acosta, Mario; Baumers, Hans; Galgani, Pietro; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Godde, Cecile; Waha, Katharina; Kanidou, Dimitra; Von Braun, Joachim; Benitez, Mauricio; Blanke, Jennifer; Caron, Patrick; Fanzo, Jessica; Greb, Friederike; Haddad, Lawrence; Herforth, Anna; Jordaan, Daniel Du Plessis Scheepers; Masters, William A.; Sadoff, Claudia; Soussana, Jean-François; Tirado, Maria Cristina; Torero, Maximo; Watkins, Matthew(Springer, 2023-01)
Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing their environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many ...
As recognized by the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa – 2024 (STISA-2024), science, technology and innovation (STI) offer many opportunities for addressing the main constraints to embracing transformation ...
Action Track 1 of the Food Systems Summit offers an opportunity to bring together the crucial elements of food safety, nutrition, poverty and inequalities in the framework of food systems within the context of climate and ...
Neufeld, Lynnette M.; Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Hugas, Marta(Springer, 2023-01)
The aim of this chapter is to propose a definition of “healthy diets” and provide related evidence, thus permitting the alignment of terminology for the Food Systems Summit and beyond.
Diets are combinations of foods ...
Masters, William A.; Martinez, Elena M.; Greb, Friederike; Herforth, Anna; Hendriks, Sheryl L.(Springer, 2023-01)
All countries have a rising burden of diet-related disease from the consumption of unhealthy foods. About three billion people around the world cannot afford the diverse foods needed for a healthy diet. This chapter aims ...
Dietary quality has significant implications for health, nutrition and life quality. Yet,
most people in developing countries, such as Malawi, consume inadequate diets
due to the high cost of healthy and nutritious food. ...
Collste, David; Aguiar, Ana Paula D.; Harmackova, Zuzana V.; Galafassi, Diego; Pereira, Laura M.; Selomane, Odirilwe; Van Der Leeuw, Sander(IOP Publishing, 2023-05-24)
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include social and ecological goals for humanity. Navigating towards reaching the goals requires the systematic inclusion of perspectives from a diversity of voices. ...
We investigate the behavioural responses of natural common-pool resource users to three
policy interventions—sanctioned quotas, information provisioning, and a combination of
both. We focus on situations in which users ...
Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy is a major developmental challenge in Africa. The present study investigates the determinants and impact of adopting solar energy on Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) ...
Recent economic relations including foreign assistance scenario in Africa show expansion of China and India as emerging bilateral partners, competing with traditional countries in Europe and North America. The results of ...
Mazwane, Sukoluhle; Maya, Okuhle; Makhura, Moraka Nakedi(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)
Supply chain finance continues to play an important role in servicing businesses that have limited access to finance. With the disruptions associated with the fourth industrial revolution, opportunities exist in Africa to ...
A transformation of food systems is needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals specified in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. Recognizing the true costs and benefits of food production and consumption ...
Small-scale broiler farming has become one of the fastest-growing subsectors
in Zimbabwe. However, the profitability levels of these small ventures have
been questioned due to the rising production costs owing to the ...