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Agriculture & Environment: Food security

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Ensuring food security — where people have access to an affordable, nutritionally adequate diet — is vital to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the proportion of people suffering from hunger.

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Opinions and Analysis

Global community must urgently tackle undernutrition

An editorial in The Lancet highlights the extent of undernutrition in the developing world and calls for urgent global action.

4 November 2009 | EN
Source: The Lancet

Can GM food mitigate world hunger?

Six experts, writing in The New York Times, discuss options for ensuring food security in the face of growing populations and climate change.

28 October 2009 | EN | 中文
Source: New York Times

Policy Briefs

Innovation systems for agricultural development

An innovation systems approach to agricultural research can be better for sustainable development than a linear pipeline approach.

22 May 2009 | EN
Source: IFPRI

Anticipating the drawbacks of biofuels

Growing biofuels requires careful consideration, particularly with regards to food security and livelihoods.

16 January 2009 | EN
Source: IWMI


News and Features

Jamaica to tackle species threatening biodiversity

Jamaica and four other Caribbean countries have been granted US$1.7 million to reduce the biodiversity threat of invasive alien species.

5 November 2009 | ES
Source: Caribbean Net News

GM potato gets roasting in South Africa

South African researchers have lodged an appeal against their government's rejection of a genetically modified potato.

4 November 2009 | EN | 中文