Closing the climate action gap in agriculture: From intent to reality

11 January 2024 | Category: Agriculture, Policy

A recently published article presents a comprehensive framework for global monitoring and tracking of climate action based on intent, need, scope, and readiness of climate policies in food systems. Climate change acts as a risk multiplier by exacerbating biodiversity loss, perpetuating poverty traps through extreme weather events, and posing threats…

What do two decades of agricultural insurance research tell us?

5 November 2021 | Category: Agriculture, Food

This blog was written by Shalika Vyas and Tobias Dalhaus.  A new systematic review highlights the need for significant policy, finance and institutional support to better align agricultural insurance research with historical and expected risk and crisis events. The global food industry suffers a loss of billions of dollars annually…