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IPES-FOOD: The New Geopolitics of Food

A new geopolitics of food is reshaping global food security. Trade wars, conflicts, climate change, aid cuts, and political tensions are fueling price volatility, worsening hunger, and strengthening corporate control..

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AFSA: Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy Communities

Rebuilding Africa’s Food Systems from the Ground Up

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PNAS: Climate Change Drives the Decline of Global Grazing Systems

Grazing systems are a critical source of livelihood for hundreds of millions of people across diverse ecological and socioeconomic contexts. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive global understanding.

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AGRONOMY JOURNAL: Response of Cereals to Intercropping with Non-Food Crops in Tropical and Subtropical Regions: A Meta-Analysis

Intercropping cereals with non-food intercrops (NFICs) can enhance cereal productivity while providing additional benefits such as improved soil health and increased forage production.

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FAO: A call for gender-just agrifood systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Closing the productivity and wage gaps in Africa could increase the regional GDP by more than 2.5 per cent and reduce food insecurity by nearly 4 per cent. These are.

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RURAL 21: The true state of our water systems

Many regions are living beyond their hydrological means, and many critical water systems are already bankrupt. This is the sobering conclusion that the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and.

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THE GUARDIAN: Iran war may cause food shortages in Africa, world’s largest fertiliser firm says

Yara CEO warns of global auction that would leave poorest countries scrambling for supplies they can ill afford.

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AFN: Environmental and geopolitical pressures are driving deeptech’s steady growth in agrifood’

At the 2021 peak, deeptech deal share accounted for 34% of agrifoodtech investment. By 2025, it was 59%.

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AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIODIVESITY: critical minerals,fertilisers,agrochemicals, digital power and the erosion of food sovereignty

Africa is increasingly caught in a global system marked by permanent conflict, intensifying competition over resources, and growing control of minerals, food, and digital systems by powerful states and corporations.

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BLOOMBERG: Climate change is already showing up in the cost of living

This was a rare instance in which researchers were able to estimate the direct effects of climate change on prices, a phenomenon known as “climateflation” that’s only beginning to be.

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