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How can Food Monitor warn about risks to #foodsecurity? This short video explains the key points: bit.ly/2p3QHVb @IFPRI @ZEFbonn
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📢Webinar!
AfDB/FAO is hosting the final webinar session for those interested in taking advantage of digitalization. The focus is on “Digitalization to transform agriculture in Africa and response to COVID-19”
🗓️ 22nd July 2020
🕦 12:30pm UTC
Register👉🏿bit.ly/2AU2UTz
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How does #digitalization contribute to #Africa’s #agriculture? The German translation of “Byte by Byte”, a report by the @MamoPanel is available online now. Read success stories from 7 African countries: zef.de/fileadmin/downloads/2…
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UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohamed has invited Professor Joachim von Braun, ZEF Director, to chair the Scientific Group for the Food System Summit of the UN Secretary General, which shall be held in 2021.
More here: bit.ly/3ipUjbX
#foodsystems #SDGs
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🚨WFP is set to assist the largest number of hungry people ever as #COVID19 devastates poor nations. We are planning the biggest scale-up of critical food assistance —from 97M to up to 138M people.
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RED ALERT: Alarmingly high levels of price volatility on global food markets continue (foodmonitor.org/index.php?id…) #Rice #FoodSecurity
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It takes millennia for soils to form. Yet fertile land is destroyed by overexploitation and climate change every year.
With farmers worldwide🌍, we have protected 166,000 hectares of land and improved the food situation for 1.8 million people:
giz.de/en/worldwide/32181.ht… @BMZ_Bund
RT @FAOKnowledge: The degradation of the 🌍's soils has released about 78 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere!
Yet, healthy #soils are one of our biggest allies against climate change!
Learn more bit.ly/36FaJI3
#DesertificationAndDroughtDay
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#Upcomingevent Humanitarian Operations During Covid-19: A Conversation with David Beasley of the World Food Programme
Experts from @CSISFood &@CSISHumAgenda will host @WFPChief to discuss how @WFP is adapting & responding to the pandemic. Tune in here: csis.org/events/online-event…
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#SouthernAfrica – 40 million people in Southern #Africa are at risk of increased hunger _ poverty due to the double treat of the #Covid19 and consecutive climatic shock. @Oxfam | Nellie Nuangwa | Daud Kayisi
📍bit.ly/2Ubqp0J
#Covid19FoodFuture @MalalaOnisoa🇲🇬
📷@Oxfam
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#Throwback to "Are productive safety net programs the silver bullet for #poverty #reduction?" organized by Zaneta Kubik & Lukas Kornher (@ZEFbonn) with Tekalign Sakketa (ZEF,@UniBonn),Tigabu Getahun (PSI),@_SudhaNarayanan (IGIDR) & Julian May (@UWConline) at #PEGNet2019 #Tbt
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Recent 📃 by @ZEFbonn's @henrykankwamba & Lukas Kornher assesses the effect of business registration on firm performance in #Malawi’s 🌽sector. Learn more ➡bit.ly/2Mneetj #agriculture #foodsecurity @LuanarBunda @_foodmonitor
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New paper by Nischalke et al. of @ProciNut on 'How to turn collectors of #edibleinsects into mini-livestock farmers' based on 4 case studies from #Kenya, #Madagascar, #Myanmar and #Thailand in: doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.1…
Research funded by @bmel @Bundestag. Photo by Jochen Dürr
Happy #AfricaDay 2020!
A day in memory of previous efforts of so many Africans for freedom and solidarity!
africa.com/10-things-know-af…
During the COVID-19, #LocustInvasion continues to threaten the #FoodSecurity in #EastAfrica, #India, #Pakistan, #Sudan and #Sahel in West Africa. The consumption of a swarm of 40 million locusts is equal to that of 35,000 people.
orfonline.org/expert-speak/a…
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European Commission announced this week the 10-year plan to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50%, plant 3bn trees by 2030 and reverse the decline in pollinators
10% of agricultural areas will be transformed into “high-diversity landscapes”
theguardian.com/environment/…
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#SmallBusinesses could spur #EconomicGrowth, but most of them in Africa do not have a #BusinessRegistration. This means a loss of government revenue. ZEF researchers @henrykankwamba and Lukas Kornher assess this problem in #Malawi’s #maize sector: doi.org/10.1080/09614524.202…
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Are expectations of #bioeconomy too high? Read the latest publication on Bioeconomy futures: Expectation patterns of scientists and practitioners on the sustainability of bio‐based transformation by Lisa Freudenberger (lead) at bit.ly/3dYeDhy
@STRIVE_ZEF @ulbbonn
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RLC researcher @AhmedAb28465383 presented his project proposal on “Transition towards sustainable agriculture: The Case of wheat-based production systems in Egypt” in an online colloquium at @ZEFbonn! 👩🌾🌱👨🌾
Read more➡️ rlc-blog.org/?p=4313
#Locusts attack in #Pakistan posts a serious threat to #FoodSecurity also the livelihood of #SmallFarmers during the pandemic.
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RED ALERT: Alarmingly high levels of price volatility on global food markets continue (foodmonitor.org/index.php?id…) #Rice #foodsecurity
RED ALERT: Alarmingly high levels of price volatility on global food markets continue (foodmonitor.org/index.php?id…) #HardWheat #FoodSecurity