News

Vietnam joins UN call to transform global food systems as UN Food Systems Summit kicks off

Transforming the food systems can help Vietnam attain many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (photo credit: CGIAR/Chris deBode). President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed Vietnam’s commitment to transforming food systems in a transparent, responsible, and sustainable manner in the ‘new...

Opinion and analysis
ILRI News

Putting accountability at the centre of the UN Food Systems Summit

A thoughtful paper has just been published by the editors of the scientific journal Global Food Security on the need to establish ways to ensure that the United Nations Food Summit delivers on the commitments it will make this September. All hat and no cattle: Accountability following the UN food...

  • Steve Staal
    Emeritus Fellow(International Livestock Research Institute)

Synergies in food systems transformation: CGIAR leads a dialogue with cross-sector stakeholders in Vietnam

Transforming food systems can help attain many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a community of experts who are joining forces to confront challenges in the current food systems in Vietnam. A CGIAR -led food systems dialogue was held 1 July 2021 in Hanoi to address existing...

Vietnam holds first national dialogue in the lead-up to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021

Around 130 leaders, researchers, investors, government, and private sector representatives in Vietnam gathered in Hanoi and joined virtually to identify solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing the food systems of the country. The feedback from the national partners will be reported to...

ILRI News
Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Is agriculture in Africa feminizing?

In the 1990s, a group of scientists were working on a project in the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir . A new sheep breed had been introduced in one of the villages and the men from that village were very enthusiastic about it. The new breed was bigger, gave more carcass weights...

AgHealth blog

New review provides framework for studying food systems to address food safety and nutrition

There is a need for better understanding of how food systems operate in order to effectively address food safety and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries, says a new review paper. The review published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Apr 2021) proposes that countries and...

ILRI News
ILRI News

Sounding the alarm: The impact of COVID-19 on global food security and nutrition

Jimmy Smith , the director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), spoke on 14 Oct, 2020 about how to prepare for and prevent future pandemics at a Committee on World Food Security (CFS) high-level event . The event, held virtually over three days and in lieu of the...

ILRI News

COVID-19 and the livestock sector: A wake-up call to optimize sustainable livestock production

Written by Cynthia Mugo How do we optimize livestock production systems to meet a growing global demand for food and nutritional security in economic, social and environmentally sustainable ways? This question was asked of participants who attended a virtual meeting for anglophone Africa livestock...

ILRI clippings

Getting beyond ’empty signifiers’—Food policy expert Corinna Hawkes asks: What are food systems for?

All children’s artworks on this page are from Artsonia Art Gallery. In the lead up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 , Corinna Hawkes , director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London, UK, asks all of us concerned with ‘food systems’ of one kind or another to think...

ILRI News

Millions of new social groups are delivering better agricultural and land management

Etching by Clint Fulkerson. Millions of geographically based new social groups are leading to more sustainable agriculture A new paper in the scientific journal Global Sustainability presents some interesting findings on the rise over the past 20 years in social movements around sustainability...

AVCD program blog

Using the SourceTrace digital platform to support farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic

sourcetrace.com Update from the drought-tolerant crops component of the AVCD program Despite minimal field visits during this period of the COVID-19-related restrictions, the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program staff and management are working with extension officers and lead farmers...

AgHealth blog

ILRI teams up with research partners to launch CGIAR COVID-19 Hub

As the impacts of COVID-19 spread across the globe, the virus threatens more than health systems worldwide. It also poses serious risks to food security, local businesses, national economies and hard-fought progress by stakeholders at all levels towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The global...