Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 11/2022

How to end hunger

Wheat harvest in the Kyiv region in August 2022 during Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Food prices

Number of starving people worldwide is again on the rise

Rocketing food prices are only partly due to shortages; food speculation and energy prices are key drivers

Social protection is essential in times of need: Tunisian farmer exposed to drought.
Fighting poverty

Social protection improves food security

Why social safety nets are key to fighting hunger and poverty in the global south

Small, but highly diversitfied agro-forestry farm on a slope of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Smallholder farmers

Neglected, but essential agricultural heritage

Why the future of human civilisation depends on impoverished farming communities in remote rural areas

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Small-scale traditional farming, like here in Nepal, has an important role to play in the transformation of agroeconomic systems.
Approaches

Industrial agriculture has failed

The solution to the present food price and hunger crisis is to transition food production to agroecological concepts suited to the location

Rice terraces in the Philippines.
Rural development

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

Why the FAO is promoting disadvantaged rural communities who live in intricate relationships with ecosystems

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Farming

What agriculture-policy reforms must deliver

Smallholder farmers are clever entrepreneurs who know exactly what they want and need

Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes are popular in East Africa.
Our view

Why SDG2 – ending hunger – deserves very much attention

For the sake of food security, policymakers must focus on smallholder farms

The suffering is real – assessing the death toll in Kasese, Uganda, in early September.
Climate crisis

International media have largely neglected Uganda’s flooding

The realities of the climate crisis are becoming increasingly obvious – for example in Uganda

Agriculture in Uganda: for smallholders, the use of GMO could lead to dependance on corporations.
Biotechnology

Why Uganda does not have a GMO law

In the fight against hunger, genetically modified organisms look promising, but there are serious worries too

Farmer harvesting millets in Rajasthan.
Farming

Indians are beginning to pay more attention to healthy diets

Why millets should prove useful in the fight against malnutrition in South Asia