Food systems governance reform and food systems multi-stakeholder mechanisms (MSMs) have been recognized as key interventions during the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and the related Summit Member State Dialogues and National Pathways. Meeting global demand for healthy and nutritious food in ways that are equitable, efficient and sustainable requires solutions...

This guide explores the climate-smart intensification of upland and lowland crop production systems in the dry-zone of Sri Lanka and provides technical guidance to achieve the productive objectives of selected strategic crops (as deemed relevant by the Government of Sri Lanka). The first edition focuses on maize and groundnut upland...

Solving the problem of hunger and malnutrition, producing and guaranteeing access to healthy food, preserving the environment, valuing local cultures, and ensuring citizen participation are some of the challenges that affect the dynamics of food systems.  From different scales and perspectives of analysis, this book addresses the role of Latin American...

In 1981, Enda Tiers Monde, an NGO based in Dakar, Senegal, initiated a study on the risks of pesticides to human and environmental health in the region. The group observed that agricultural production techniques in Senegal relied on synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and had greatly contributed to the degradation of African...

While agroecology becomes a concrete reality for an increasing number of producers and communities across the world, it also sparks meaningful discussions around the urgent need for sustainable transformation of food systems in international debates. The origins of agroecology can vary in terms of its different dimensions, as a science,...

What is the story behind the food you eat? What if people actually valued all the underpaid and unpaid labor that goes into food? What if women were not doing most of the work? And if women and girls weren’t the last ones to eat? What if it weren't mostly...