ActionAid believes that agroecology-based Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture (CSRA) is an effective way to respond to both the climate and food crisis. CRSA proposes to overcome the gaps of...
Earlier this week I was in Washington, DC to visit with staff, Board and partners of ActionAid USA, before heading up to New York to meet with some of the foundations that support ActionAid’s work....
As the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) holds its 31st Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific in Hanoi next week, leaders would do well to consider the stark choice before them....
In June of 2012, representatives of over 140 nations are expected to take part in the “Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development”. The conference – scheduled 20 years after the...
Asutaure is a lush plain circled by majestic hills and just a few miles to the west of the vast Volta dam. Gravity kindly powers the irrigation channels that make this such a fertile place to grow...
Smallholder sustainable agriculture is the most efficient and socially just way to increase productivity, resilience to climate change, household incomes, job creation, regeneration of land...
Ruchi Tripathi, Head of Right to Food, and Celso Marcatto, Right to Food Global Programme Coordinator, recently visited Palamau, one of the poorest areas in India. Check out her memo from the field.[...
Southern Africa is one of the regions estimated to be most at risk from climate change. While policy responses to global warming have been mainly driven by debates among scientists, the insights of...
