Thank you, @sefariscot.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my views. I look forward to more collaboration in 2026 and beyond! For a food-secure planet! #Foodsecurity #agrifoodsystems

🆕 New study by CIFOR-ICRAF - Agroecology TPP!

It underscores the importance of adopting more holistic ways to measure agrifood system performance, so that agroecology can be fairly assessed alongside other approaches.

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#agroecology #FoodSystems #AgrifoodSystems

🚨It’s live!

The @FAO.org Climate Change Knowledge Hub is your one-stop shop for climate knowledge at the nexus of food, agriculture, and the environment.

Discover +800 resources and tools today ➡️ bit.ly/49Du8vu

#ClimateAction #AgrifoodSystems #ClimateFinance #COP30

Food, climate and the future - it’s all connected!

Discover 5 science-backed solutions that can help transform agrifood systems to withstand climate shocks and tackle the climate crisis.

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#AgrifoodSystems #COP30

#COP30, in the heart of the Amazon, is a chance to focus the debate on the role of forests & their users (crop & animal farmers, etc). For #CIRAD, transforming #AgrifoodSystems & #forestry to ensure greater #sustainability & social justice must be central to the talks.

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🌍 We’re proud to share that Emily Poppenborg Martin (project coordinator) and Ammanuel Tamiru (leader of the Push-Pull programme from ICIPE) represented UPSCALE at The AU–EU Innovation Fair.

#UPSCALE #InnovationFair #AUEUInnovation #Sustainability #AgriFoodSystems #EUProjects

🌏🍎This #WorldFoodDay check out our latest issue of Environmental Research: Food Systems #ERFS featuring work from researchers seeking to sustainably transform our #agrifoodsystems and deliver #foodsecurity for all 🌽🔏

🔗https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/2976-601X/2/3

#Environment #Food #Foodsystems 🐄

Climate-smart livestock systems show how better feed, manure management, solar power and farmer training can slash methane emissions. True sustainability happens when innovations are guided by eco-stewardship and social inclusion. #AgriFoodSystems #SolarCow 📸 Alons on Unsplash

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Join the #AgroecologyTRANSECT team at 4 #FSD8 talks on Farming System Design for sustainable #AgrifoodSystems this week 👇

🌱Agroecological initiatives
🌱Transdisciplinary research
🌱Co-innovation in Uruguay and the EU
🌱Evaluation frameworks

We hope to see you there! fsd8-2025.symposium.inrae.fr

📢 New Policy Brief released!

FAO, ICA-Africa & ICA-AP, under the ICA-EU Partnership, facilitated a Strategic Dialogue in the NENA region on cooperative development for rural & agrifood systems transformation.
🔗 doi.org/10.4060/cd59...

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Developing good agricultural practices (GAP) across global agri-food supply chains: challenges and opportunities <p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d3687174e112">Good agricultural practices (GAP) define the practices at the farm level that can be ado...

🔖 'Developing good agricultural practices (GAP) across global agri-food supply chains: challenges and opportunities' - a @bdspublishing.bsky.social book on #ScienceOpen:

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It covers livestock, rice systems, and food loss and waste — with case studies from 10 countries, including:

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🇰🇪 Kenya
🇷🇼 Rwanda
🇹🇿 Tanzania
🇹🇭 Thailand
🇺🇬 Uganda
🇺🇸 United States
🇺🇾 Uruguay
🇻🇳 Vietnam

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Sustainable agrifood systems in the Mediterranean - FOODPathS This interactive tool compiles expert knowledge about a series of catalytic levers for agrifood systems transformation.

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Dive into how the Mediterranean is boosting #AgrifoodSystems sustainability. This interactive tool reveals 8 key levers & 38 stories of change through regional cooperation. Get inspired! 👇
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#SFSMED

SADC parliamentarians push for right to food legislation Moses Magadza  Parliamentarians from SADC member states have concluded a high-level meeting and training toward transforming food systems and eradicating hunger in Southern Africa with strong commitments to legislative reforms, regional cooperation, and rights-based governance of agrifood systems.  Convened from 22 to 24 July 2025, the inaugural meeting of the SADC Parliamentary Alliance on Agrifood Systems, Food Security and Nutrition, coupled with an intensive Subregional Training on Legislating the Right to Adequate Food, brought together lawmakers from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.  The SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) co-hosted the event with support from Germany and Spain. The initiative marked the formal launch of the SADC Parliamentary Alliance on Agrifood Systems, a regional platform to bolster food security and nutrition through legislative harmonisation, oversight, and inclusive policymaking. It included a two-day training programme on the right to adequate food, where parliamentarians explored key legal tools and principles to anchor food rights within domestic laws.  The training focused on core obligations under the Right to Food Guidelines; integration of the Pan-African Parliament Model Law on Food Security and Nutrition; legal safeguards for indigenous and traditional food systems; and oversight mechanisms for accountability and inclusive governance. In a joint communiqué read by South African member of parliament Ntombovuyo Veronica Mente-Nkuna, the lawmakers welcomed the training as a timely capacity-building intervention, enhancing their ability to craft responsive legislation and hold governments accountable for food-related commitments. The meeting culminated in the development of a two-year work plan which aligns the alliance’s work with existing SADC PF structures and commits parliaments to strengthen budget oversight and policy harmonisation; institutionalise monitoring and evaluation mechanisms; and mobilise political and financial resources to sustain progress. The alliance will serve as a strategic vehicle to help parliaments translate regional frameworks such as Agenda 2063, SDG 2, and the new Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP 2026–2035) into national legislative agendas, bridging global aspirations with local action. The MPs unanimously endorsed a set of resolutions, including commitments to align national food legislation with international and continental frameworks; promote intra-African trade in safe and nutritious food, in line with the AfCFTA; advocate for food systems that uphold dignity, especially during emergencies or conflict; and engage strategically in global fora such as the 2026 Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition, to be hosted in Midrand, South Africa. They also pledged to represent Southern African perspectives at international platforms such as the G20 and P20, ensuring regional priorities on food security and agrifood transformation are amplified on the global stage. The communiqué stressed the need for inclusive, accountable, and rights-based food systems across the SADC region. MPs expressed appreciation to the FAO for its legal and technical guidance, to SADC PF for its leadership, and to the governments of Germany and Spain for their support in strengthening food governance capacities. The parliamentarians reaffirmed their resolve to forge a Southern Africa where food is not a privilege, but a guaranteed right anchored in law, protected by oversight, and sustained by regional solidarity. The deputy speaker of the Parliament of Namibia, Philipus Katamelo, called on regional parliaments to intensify legislative action to address food insecurity.  He described the right to food as “a sacred obligation never suspended, even in times of war or emergency.” “The right to food is at the nexus of the realisation of various other rights, including the right to education, the right to health, and ultimately, the right to life itself, yet food insecurity remains one of the region’s gravest challenges,” Katamelo said. He noted that 67.7 million Southern African citizens were projected to experience acute food insecurity in the 2024/25 season—“a 24.5% increase from the previous year.” He identified several underlying causes of the region’s food crisis, including entrenched poverty, climate change, high unemployment, inadequate investment in food systems, and weak governance structures.  He called on parliamentarians to embrace their constitutional duties of legislation, oversight, and representation to confront these challenges. “Parliamentarians can contribute significantly to building more sustainable food systems. But to do so effectively, they must be capacitated, especially in understanding the linkages between national legislation and international frameworks such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ICESCR, Agenda 2063, and the SDGs,” he stressed. He also championed the revival of native food crops and locally adapted agricultural practices as a path to sustainability and inclusivity.  “Africa’s native crops and fauna have been ignored in favour of exotic varieties, yet they are more resilient and require less input. Our farmers, mostly small-scale producers, remain marginalised and excluded from the agrifood system. We must retrace our steps, and parliamentarians should be at the forefront of this effort,” he stated. He described the alliance as “an excellent forum for capacitation of parliamentarians in the collective effort to address hunger, malnutrition, and agrifood system sustainability.” Additionally, he acknowledged the SADC PF’s role in shaping regional leaders. “The Forum has been instrumental in shaping several current and former Heads of State in the region, at the time they served as parliamentarians, a record the Forum must be very proud of,” he said. Addressing the workshop via Zoom, Dr. Patrice Talla, FAO subregional coordinator for Southern Africa, pledged continued support to the region’s parliaments in advancing the right to food and transforming agrifood systems to combat hunger and malnutrition.  “Our strong and enduring partnership, soon to be further solidified through a forthcoming Memorandum of Understanding, remains a cornerstone of our shared progress,” he said. Talla added, “733 million people suffer from chronic hunger – one in five in Africa. 2.3 billion are food insecure, and 2.8 billion lack access to healthy diets. These figures are not just statistics but a call to action.” He stressed the need for systemic transformation across the entire agrifood value chain, from production to consumption, guided by a human rights-based approach.  He reminded delegates that the right to food is not aspirational, but a legal entitlement, enshrined in global and African human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He noted that the workshop had set the course for the alliance’s operationalisation and established a clear work plan for the future.  The FAO representative also acknowledged the role that parliamentarians play in strengthening governance of agrifood systems. He drew attention to the CAADP Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035), which calls on parliaments to promote inclusive policies and ensure accountability through oversight and resource allocation. Talla announced that the next World Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition will be held in 2026 at the headquarters of the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand, South Africa. He lauded the SADC PF’s support in securing the venue and encouraged continued participation. “The SADC PF will also be invited to a pre-Summit meeting at FAO headquarters in Rome in November 2025, which will bring together key parliamentary institutions to finalise the Summit’s content around three main pillars: economic, social, and environmental,” he revealed. At the advice of the secretary general of SADC PF, Boemo Sekgoma, the election of the alliance’s governing bodies was postponed allowing broader consultations. The workshop ended with renewed resolve among participating parliamentarians to champion inclusive, rights-based approaches to food security and nutrition across Southern Africa. *Moses Magadza is the media and communications manager at the SADC Parliamentary Forum. Captions  Photo 1 – South African member of parliament Ntombovuyo Veronica Mente-Nkuna. Photo 2 – The deputy speaker of the Parliament of Namibia, Philipus Wido Katamelo. Photo 3 – Dr. Patrice Talla, FAO subregional coordinator for Southern Africa. – Photo: FAO. Photo 4 – Secretary general of SADC PF, Boemo Sekgoma. Photo 5 – Delegates in a training toward transforming food systems and eradicating hunger in Southern Africa.  -Photos: Moses Magadza, SADC PF.

#RightToFood #FoodSecurity #AgrifoodSystems #SADC #Nutrition

Alliance calls for binding legislation on food rights in SADC Moses Magadza and Angel Alessandri The inaugural meeting of the SADC Parliamentary Alliance on Agrifood Systems, Food Security and Nutrition, began in Johannesburg on 22 July 2025, with the SADC Parliamentary Forum and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) calling for stronger parliamentary action to combat hunger, malnutrition, and build resilient agrifood systems across Southern Africa. Speaking to lawmakers from different SADC Member States, development partners, and technical experts, SADC PF Secretary General Ms Boemo Sekgoma noted that the meeting came at a time of global food crises exacerbated by conflict, climate change, and inequality. “As we speak,” she said, “thousands of individuals, including women and children, are deprived of nutrition in the Middle East due to armed conflicts. The situation is no better in Africa, where protracted droughts and hotter summers have rendered food scarce, unavailable, or simply unaffordable in certain areas.” She stated that hunger was not merely a biological state but a structural injustice. “These children are not lazy. They are hungry. And hunger does not merely gnaw at the stomach. It gnaws at dreams, at potential, at futures,” Sekgoma stated, referring to reports from one member state where rural teachers keep food diaries to track what their students are not eating. The secretary general advocated for treating food not as a private matter but as a “parliamentary concern, a human right, and a legal obligation.”  She called on Parliaments across the region to adopt robust legislative and oversight mechanisms to advance food justice. Citing international standards such as General Comment 12 on the Right to Adequate Food by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Ms Sekgoma stressed that availability, accessibility, and cultural appropriateness are indispensable to fulfilling this right. She pointed to the paradox of global food systems where, amid widespread hunger, 2025 has recorded over 3,000 billionaires, a reflection of growing inequality. “Does capitalism always serve the cause of malnutrition and food insecurity in the world? Or would a measure of socialism be better for food security?” she asked.  She challenged the audience to reflect on the role of state intervention in guaranteeing the right to food. The SG called on lawmakers to leverage their legislative powers to promote agricultural productivity, remove tariffs on staple foods, support smallholder farmers, and provide social safety nets during emergencies. “Parliamentary activity can enhance agro-business schemes, remove value-added taxes on rice and cereals, and oversee safe pest control methods,” she said, adding that remunerative employment laws must also be part of the solution to food insecurity. She reaffirmed the SADC PF’s commitment to human rights as enshrined in its 2024–2028 Strategic Plan, and urged members of the Alliance to align their work with the SADC Vision 2050 and the African Union Agenda 2063. “If we are to build the coveted SADC of tomorrow… our citizens must be safe from food insecurity. Their rights to food must be implemented to their fullest extent,” she said. Sekgoma quoted Greek dramatist Euripides: “If a man’s stomach is full, it makes no difference if he is rich or poor.” Speaking at the same occasion, Dr Babagana Ahmadu, the FAO representative in South Africa, hailed the partnership between FAO and SADC PF as “pivotal” in achieving food security and transforming food systems in the region.  He urged lawmakers to treat the right to adequate food as a fundamental human right and a political imperative. “This gathering is particularly timely, marking a significant milestone in our collective efforts to address hunger, malnutrition, and the sustainability challenges within our region,” said Dr Ahmadu.  He stressed the role of parliamentarians as agents of change and said their legislative, budgetary and oversight mandates are essential to ensuring the right to food is realised for all citizens. The meeting comes as the region prepares to host the Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition in 2026, a landmark event that Dr Ahmadu said would benefit from the momentum and strategic direction emerging from the newly formed Alliance.  “Our initiative here is instrumental in paving the way for informed legislative action and strengthened regional leadership,” he added. Dr Ahmadu expressed confidence that the deliberations in Johannesburg would not only result in robust governance structures for the Alliance, but also deliver strategic roadmaps that “enhance parliamentary capacities across SADC nations.” “We look forward to your active engagement as we collaboratively build the capacity to effectively legislate and implement policies that uphold the right to adequate food,” he said. He linked the Alliance’s work to broader global commitments, such as the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The FAO Representative urged parliamentarians to seize the opportunity presented by the Alliance.  “Your contributions will undoubtedly shape the future direction of the Alliance and significantly enhance our collective ability to foster transformative change in our region’s agrifood systems,” he said. The meeting, which runs until 24 July, brings together members of parliament from across the SADC region, experts from the FAO, and officials from the SADC PF Secretariat.  It aims to formalise the Alliance, build the legislative capacity of MPs on food rights, and chart a common regional agenda towards ending hunger and malnutrition. *Moses Magadza is the media and communications manager at the SADC Parliamentary Forum, while Angel Alessandri is programme support specialist – outreach and advocacy at the FAO Subregional Resilience Office in Southern Africa. 

#FoodRights #SADC #FoodSecurity #Nutrition #AgrifoodSystems

Namibia Urges Global Action On Food Security [New Era] Namibia has called on all Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) member states to implement the recommendations of the State of Food and Agriculture Report, localise the Pact for the Future, and prioritise improving food security while building more sustainable agri-food systems.

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So, How Do We Fund Agrifood Systems? And still there never seems to be a single penny left...

This week, finance for food and agriculture came under the microscope. Whether it was news that startup funding is drying up or budget slashing for public food assistance programs, money is proving to be tight.

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Episode 14: How Heifer International uses Innovative Finance to Empower Smallholder Farmers in India: A Conversation with Neena Jain The Blended Finance Podcast · Episode

She also explores blended finance’s future in India & beyond—and what’s next for Heifer’s mission to build resilient food systems.

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🚨 🆕 @brightspace-project.eu #OpenAccess Article! 🚨

Impact of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Policies on the Transition Towards a Safe and Just Operating Space for EU Agri-Food Systems published in Q Open! 🌱

🔗https://tinyurl.com/3hyxxa99

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Images from the site visits to Port Royal (left) and Palisadoes (right) 📷

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Some images from the visit to Dangriga 📷

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At the @fao.org Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific roundtable on Empowering Women & Girls in Agrifood Systems. Great discussions on innovative strategies for change. #ForAllWomenAndGirls #IWD2025 #AgrifoodSystems

High-level 🇩🇪 delegation by @bmuv.de @bmz.de backs #COP16Colombia 🇺🇳 @fao.org @faodg.fao.org in Rome, advocating for a bold shift in agrifood systems and staying committed to biodiversity goals. #Biodiversity #AgrifoodSystems

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply for the WFF Youth Policy Board by 26 January to join young leaders shaping the future of agrifood systems and policy advocacy! 🌱💡 👉 APPLY NOW wp.me/p23f03-c2p

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Academic Europe - Postdoc position in sustainable agri-food system governance 100%

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🌿 POSTDOC POSITION IN SUSTAINABLE AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM GOVERNANCE 100%

Deadline: 2025-01-06

Location: Switzerland, Basel

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