March 19, 2015
Potential for Nutrition Gains in Nepal through its Agriculture Sector
Jess FanzoColumbia University
Agricultural and food systems around the world have evolved to become more complex and globalized. The nutritional quality of food production, processing, and consumption – as determined by the food system – is intrinsically related to the World Summit goal for all people to have the opportunity to lead a healthy a…
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March 13, 2015
Management of stingless bees in the Balsas River Basin, Michoacán, Mexico
Alejandro Reyes GonzálezUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoAndrés Camou-GuerreroUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoAlejandro CasasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoArturo Argueta VillamarUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoOctavio Reyes SalasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Stingless bees belong to the order of insects called Hymenoptera and are globally recognized as a very large group of bees, between 400 and 500 species. Tropical regions of the American Continent are considered a center of diversification of stingless bees. In the case of Mexico, there are 46 species of stingless bees,…
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March 10, 2015
Learning from experience: Connecting Landscape Leaders in Ethiopia
At first impression, the Amhara region of Ethiopia may seem drab and barren. Knowing of the degradation that happened to these landscapes, I didn’t expect to see much more than scrubland. A recent visit to the Aba Gerima watershed, however, showed me a much greener picture, where a team from the Water and Land Reso…
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March 6, 2015
Creating a Sustainable Future Requires the Empowerment of Women
Laurie Benson1% For Women
Women constitute half of our global population, and the timing is crucial for us to invest in women as agents of change.
The link between natural resource depletion, gender inequality, conflict and peace building can no longer be ignored. It is a lack of access to natural resources that ultimately leads to the destabi…
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March 4, 2015
Forests a Food Security Blanket for Communities in India
Kavitha KurugantiAlliance for Sustainable & Holistic AgricultureDebal DebCentre for Inter-Disciplinary StudiesRukmini RaoGramya Resource Centre for WomenSalome Yesudas
Countries like India, which claim to have reduced poverty yet have had no reductions in hunger and malnutrition, present quite a paradox that must be addressed. The food sovereignty framework, introduced by the Sustainable Development Goals debate, is promising because it addresses the fact that hunger and malnutrition…
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March 2, 2015
De-commodifying Food: the last frontier in the civic claim of the commons
Jose Luis Vivero PolUniversité catholique de Louvain
The socially constructed nature of food as a private good is being necessarily re-conceived as a commons, a crucial narrative for the transition from the dominating industrial food system towards a more sustainable system that is fairer to food producers and consumers.
Food is a natural resource that is essential fo…
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