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Reducing food loss and waste for climate outcomes: Insights from national consultations in Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal

Aug 25th, 2024 • by Suresh Babu, Yogendra Karki, Innocent Pangapanga, Md Sadat Anowar, and Nandita Srivastava

Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is crucial to improving food security, reducing malnutrition, and providing livelihoods for food system workers. But such efforts are also key to combating climate change. FLW has significant environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in both the production of food that is later lost and in waste management.

After a year, India’s rice export restrictions continue to fuel high prices

Jul 30th, 2024 • by JOSEPH GLAUBER AND ABDULLAH MAMUN

In July 2023, the Indian government announced export restrictions on non-basmati white rice. Coming after earlier export limits on other types of rice, the action was taken in part due to a strengthening El Niño that threatened to limit rice production and fuel rising food inflation—a potential political liability for the Modi government as it faced upcoming general elections in spring 2024.

Evaluating impacts: Lessons from food systems interventions across Africa and Asia

Jul 16th, 2024 • by Jef L. Leroy, Lynnette Neufeld, Stella Nordhagen, and Sydney Honeycutt

Food systems play an important role in shaping our diets. Recently, there has been growing attention to food systems transformation, which involves changing different components of global food systems to make nutritious foods more accessible to consumers. At the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, more than 100 countries pledged to transform their food systems, a clear recognition of the importance of healthy diets in preventing all forms of malnutrition worldwide.

Reviving public extension for climate-resilient agriculture: Lessons and insights from India, Indonesia, and Nepal

Jun 16th, 2024 • by Suresh Babu, Yogendra Kumar Karki, Aniq Fadhillah, and Nandita Srivastava

With global temperatures already 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, climate change is having major impacts on agriculture that fall disproportionately on the Global South—from crops, to livestock, to aquaculture. Agricultural systems endure frequent heat waves, flooding, and drought—often all in one season. Climate-related extreme weather events such as intense rainstorms pose a serious threat to crops.

Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself?

Jun 10th, 2024 • by Will Martin; Abdullah Mamun; Nicholas Minot and Rob Vos

Recent shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war have disrupted global food and fertilizer supply chains—causing price spikes and increased price volatility—a disastrous combination for many vulnerable consumers around the world.