Guest Post July 31, 2019 After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again Jessica Fanzo Derek Byerlee The first UN Conference on Food and Agriculture, held in 1943, urged a focus on nutrition in the fight against hunger. Yet it took decades for the global community to take that message […]

Jul 23, 2019 In the News China Is a food disaster that could sweep the world coming? Research says climate events could cause crop failures (The Paper) Climate Change Nutrition China’s The Paper reported on a study by IFPRI researchers on how climate variability will impact global crop yields. The […]

Our insatiable demand for food, tech-economy minerals and other resources is wreaking havoc on the planet, but it’s also directly linked to the deaths of global citizens – dozens of them – who are killed because they were trying to protect their lands and communities. At least 164 people died […]

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Country: Yemen According to the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, the number of reported civilian casualties in Sa’ada had been falling for the past three months with Monday’s attack reversing that progress. Sana’a, 30 July 2019 – […]

This event focuses on the future of Sino-African development relations, in particular the Belt and Road Initiative in the East African context.