How Big Companies Can Help End Hunger
The number of people who go to bed hungry was rising steadily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to stresses related to climate, inequality and conflict, and now stands at 690 million. The pandemic has supercharged these trends. The latest
What Benefitting 110,000 Farmers Looks Like
The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project demonstrates significant productivity, income, food security and women’s empowerment benefits for 110,000 participating farmers. On this World Telecommunications and Information Society Day, we reflected on the ways the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture
Impactful Climate Services: What Are the Lessons Learned?
A new working paper offers a chance to understand challenges and lessons learned in project implementation over the past five years. Key challenges and opportunities to create impact are revealed through interviews with project leads around the world from the CGIAR Research
More Natural Disasters and Water Stress Threaten Asia-Pacific
A brief look into the Asia-Pacific region’s ecological threat profile. The Asia-Pacific region has suffered the most natural disasters in the last 30 years, and it will witness a major increase in water stress over the next 20 years, according to
Moving Towards Sustainable Agricultural Policy Making
To ensure food security and livelihoods in face of changing climate and to reduce the pace of climate change, there is an urgent need to increase adaptive capacity of the sector and to reduce its GHG emissions. This cannot be
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