We Can End Hunger and Meet Climate Goals For an Extra USD 14 Billion per Year
Governments are spending unprecedented sums of public money in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in hopes of building a better world for our children and protecting the most vulnerable. Overnight, social and economic experiments almost too fantastic to contemplate have
Rural Women Must Be at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery
COVID-19 continues to sweep across the world, and has now spread from the developed world to the global South. With rural populations making up three-quarters of the world’s poor, the impact of the pandemic will inevitably be most devastating in developing
COVID-19, Conflict and Ecological Threats in Yemen
The COVID-19 pandemic will intensify the impacts of ongoing conflict and ecological threats in Yemen. Yemen is considered an ecological hotspot, facing high exposure to all three resource depletion indicators measured in the Ecological Threat Register (ETR) – water stress, food
Not All Evil Comes to Harm: Could the Pandemic Crisis Be an Opportunity for a Sustainable Reboot?
The Covid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented health and economic crisis, holding at the same time profound lessons that can help us set a new global equilibrium if we make sustainability core to our planning for the reboot. It may appear
COVID-19 – Pre-Existing Gender Discrimination Provides Fertile Ground for Increased Inequality
Evidence from around the world shows that women are disproportionately affected by economic shocks and crises. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Women are hard hit as individuals and in their ability to fulfill their role in terms of contribution
Rethinking Our Hushed Voices on Animal Endangerment and Extinction
Of the 112,432 species assessed for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, 30,178 are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered. The current animal endangerment and extinction crisis is mostly of our own making — we are
COVID-19: flattening the food insecurity curve
To avoid societal collapses and their many potential ripple effects on world security, we must act now to flatten the food insecurity curve. COVID-19: the domino effect The COVID-19 pandemic is already affecting the world on an unprecedented scale. Yet, the unfolding
Equal Rights in Food: An Ongoing Discrimination Against Women
Equal Rights in Food: Eliminate legal discrimination against women to advance food security and nutrition In societies where there is a high degree of gender inequality, there is also a significantly higher proportion of undernourishment among women and girls. In order to
Water Could Limit Our Ability to Feed the World. These 9 Graphics Explain Why
To feed the world, we need to pay more attention to water. To nourish a growing global population, we’ll need to produce 56% more calories by 2050, while dealing with increasing climate-driven water risks like droughts and competition over resources. If we don’t
Female Mayor ‘Warriors’ of the Amazon Inspire COP25 Delegates With Stories of Resilience
At the Women Mayors of Amazon session held at COP25 on December 6, women Mayors in four vulnerable municipalities in the Amazon rainforest vividly illustrated the challenges they face. This is the second article in our COP25 series. This article, first
Agriculture, food security and climate change with a gender lens
Guatemalan institutions and CCAFS give shape to a practical guide to integrate gender in agricultural projects. Article in collaboration with: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) seeks to address the increasing challenge of global warming and
Measuring Progress Towards Sustainable Agriculture
Just about everyone agrees that sustainable agriculture is crucial for the future, especially given that the world’s population is expected to grow while the size of the planet will not. While we have a broad consensus on what sustainable agriculture is,