Rice production is an integral commodity to global food security, but it also contributes considerably to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). There are a variety of options to mitigate GHG emissions from paddy rice production but the impacts and opportunities to finance such activities are not well-known or well-understood for global investors, and muc...
In recent years, countries have suffered various crises – climate or economic. These trends suggest the need for countries to be more resilient. Policy formulation would be central to this. A CGIAR initiative aims to strengthen policymaking in several countries by fostering coherence of national policies and strategies (NPS). In this interview, Dr....
¿Cuántos kilómetros recorren los alimentos antes de llegar a su ciudad? ¿Cuál es el impacto ambiental de estos recorridos? ?Cuántas toneladas de alimentos se mueven en Colombia cada año? ¿Qué municipios abastecen a las ciudades en Colombia? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que la nueva plataforma PlaSa Colombia ayuda a responder con solo un clic....
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
This article offers a theoretical foundation for pursuing transdisciplinary food systems research, informed by deep sustainability and equity, across various scales of the system. It weaves together ontologically aligned, food-relevant social theory from ecofeminism, agroecology, ecological economics, systems theory and food systems scholarship, se...
There is global debate whether to diversify agricultural production. A study was conducted in 2016 and 2017 in Lilongwe district, Malawi, to determine effects of agricultural diversity on income, wealth, diets and nutrition. A cross-sectional design was used in surveys on agriculture, income, assets, and nutrition coupled with anthropometric measur...
Livestock production is a major livelihood in many parts of Africa, providing multiple benefits and uses that include milk, meat, payment of dowry, measure of wealth, draft power among others. In particular, extensive livestock systems support most of Africa’s livestock population, with 63%, 82% and 70% of the continent’s cattle, sheep and goats, r...
This analysis is composed of two parts. The evolving structure of Kenya’s agrifood system (AFS) and its contribution to national development is assessed using a series of Social Accounting Matrixes (SAMs) for Kenya for the period 2009–2019. Economic performance is also assessed at subsector level to better understand the contributions of different ...
Published in American journal of health promotion : AJHP
Food service guidelines (FSG) policies can impact the nutritional quality of millions of meals sold or served to government employees, citizens in public places, or institutionalized persons. This study examines state FSG policies adopted January 1, 2015 to April 1, 2019, and uses a FSG Classification Tool (FSG Tool) to quantify alignment with nutr...
Published in American journal of health promotion : AJHP
To document and analyze the food systems interventions delivered by community health workers (CHW) serving as educators within the United States (U.S.). Ten databases (ie, Agricola, CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, ERIC, Proquest Social Science and Education, Proquest Theses and Dissertations, PubMed, Scopus, SocIndex, Web of Science) and gray-literature rep...
Standard tools that can quantitatively track the impacts of higher global demand for animal-sourced food to their local environmental effects in developing countries are largely missing. This paper presents a novel integrated assessment framework that links a model of the global agricultural and food system, a landscape-level environmental impact a...
