1) The document discusses the challenges of sustainably increasing food production to meet growing demand by 2050 while adapting to climate change and depleting resources.
2) Some of the key challenges outlined are feeding a growing population projected to reach 9 billion by 2050, fluctuating food prices, water scarcity, disease epidemics in major crops, restrictions on germplasm exchange, and climate change impacts.
3) The document argues that addressing these interconnected global challenges will require cross-disciplinary, systems-based approaches that empower smallholders, strengthen partnerships, and implement the right policy incentives.
This document outlines the Dutch government's policy objectives for food and nutrition security. The goals are to:
1) Eradicate existing hunger and malnutrition.
2) Promote inclusive and sustainable growth in agriculture.
3) Create ecologically sustainable food systems.
These objectives align with the global goals of ending hunger and malnutrition, increasing food production in a sustainable way, and ensuring food systems rely on nature. The Dutch development cooperation budget allocates 600 million euros yearly across central government, embassies, and official development assistance to further food and nutrition security programs in four areas: food and nutrition, food/water/energy, climate change, and agriculture.
The document outlines the Dutch government's policy objectives for food and nutrition security (FNS). The two main global goals are to end hunger and achieve food security and nutrition, as well as promote sustainable agriculture. The Dutch policy aims to: 1) eradicate existing hunger and malnutrition, 2) promote inclusive and sustainable agricultural growth, and 3) create ecologically sustainable food systems. The policy framework is structured around the themes of People, Profit, Planet. The Dutch government allocates 600 million euros annually from its development cooperation budget to programs that contribute to stimulating FNS in four areas: food and nutrition security, food/water/energy, climate change, and agriculture. Examples of funded programs are outlined.
Global Food Security Challenges and Opportunities: the new role of agricultureShenggen Fan
Global food security faces complex challenges such as food price volatility, population growth, and climate change. A comprehensive strategy is needed to address these challenges and protect the poor. Agriculture, especially small-scale farming, must play a new role in achieving broader development outcomes such as improving nutrition, promoting climate change adaptation, building conflict resilience, and narrowing gender gaps.
Second lecture (out of three) in the Master on European and Global Governance by the Institute for European Global Studies (University of Basel, Switzerland).
https://europa.unibas.ch/fr/weiterbildung/cas-europe-2050/
This presentation includes a critical assessment of a recent foresight report on the future of Global and European Food Security in 2030, an analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy (past and future) and the rising numbers of food insecure european households.
Concete policy proposals that could be included in a yet-to-be Common Food Policy (replacing the current CAP in 2020) are discussed at the end.
Comments are more than welcomed.
Third lecture (out of three) in the Master on European and Global Governance by the Institute for European Global Studies (University of Basel, Switzerland).
https://europa.unibas.ch/fr/weiterbildung/cas-europe-2050/
This lecture analyses the competing narratives of transition in the global and European food systems, within the theoretical framework of the Socio-technical Transition Theory and the Multi-Level Perspective.
The dominant productivist narrative of the regime and the alternative narratives of the innovative and challenging niches are presented (food sovereignty, agro-ecology, de-growth, commons, Transition Towns, Buen Vivir, Ubuntu).
Global challenges such as population growth, increasing demand for food, and scarce resources are putting pressure on agriculture. BASF is committed to supporting sustainable farming through innovative solutions. Some key challenges for farmers include crop losses from pests and diseases, global trends of urbanization and diet changes, and macroeconomic pressures. BASF aims to help farmers produce more and better quality food while preserving the environment through solutions across chemistry, biology, and digital technologies.
Powerpoint of one of my PhD studies on how food-related professionals working in the food system in multiple institutions value food (as a commons or a commodity) and how this valuation shapes preferred food policies.
Presented at International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), Stockholm, 20-23 of March 2016
http://www.ces.uc.pt/undisciplined-environments/index.php?id=12410&id_lingua=1&pag=12507
This document outlines the Dutch government's policy objectives for food and nutrition security. The goals are to:
1) Eradicate existing hunger and malnutrition.
2) Promote inclusive and sustainable growth in agriculture.
3) Create ecologically sustainable food systems.
These objectives align with the global goals of ending hunger and malnutrition, increasing food production in a sustainable way, and ensuring food systems rely on nature. The Dutch development cooperation budget allocates 600 million euros yearly across central government, embassies, and official development assistance to further food and nutrition security programs in four areas: food and nutrition, food/water/energy, climate change, and agriculture.
The document outlines the Dutch government's policy objectives for food and nutrition security (FNS). The two main global goals are to end hunger and achieve food security and nutrition, as well as promote sustainable agriculture. The Dutch policy aims to: 1) eradicate existing hunger and malnutrition, 2) promote inclusive and sustainable agricultural growth, and 3) create ecologically sustainable food systems. The policy framework is structured around the themes of People, Profit, Planet. The Dutch government allocates 600 million euros annually from its development cooperation budget to programs that contribute to stimulating FNS in four areas: food and nutrition security, food/water/energy, climate change, and agriculture. Examples of funded programs are outlined.
Global Food Security Challenges and Opportunities: the new role of agricultureShenggen Fan
Global food security faces complex challenges such as food price volatility, population growth, and climate change. A comprehensive strategy is needed to address these challenges and protect the poor. Agriculture, especially small-scale farming, must play a new role in achieving broader development outcomes such as improving nutrition, promoting climate change adaptation, building conflict resilience, and narrowing gender gaps.
Second lecture (out of three) in the Master on European and Global Governance by the Institute for European Global Studies (University of Basel, Switzerland).
https://europa.unibas.ch/fr/weiterbildung/cas-europe-2050/
This presentation includes a critical assessment of a recent foresight report on the future of Global and European Food Security in 2030, an analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy (past and future) and the rising numbers of food insecure european households.
Concete policy proposals that could be included in a yet-to-be Common Food Policy (replacing the current CAP in 2020) are discussed at the end.
Comments are more than welcomed.
Third lecture (out of three) in the Master on European and Global Governance by the Institute for European Global Studies (University of Basel, Switzerland).
https://europa.unibas.ch/fr/weiterbildung/cas-europe-2050/
This lecture analyses the competing narratives of transition in the global and European food systems, within the theoretical framework of the Socio-technical Transition Theory and the Multi-Level Perspective.
The dominant productivist narrative of the regime and the alternative narratives of the innovative and challenging niches are presented (food sovereignty, agro-ecology, de-growth, commons, Transition Towns, Buen Vivir, Ubuntu).
Global challenges such as population growth, increasing demand for food, and scarce resources are putting pressure on agriculture. BASF is committed to supporting sustainable farming through innovative solutions. Some key challenges for farmers include crop losses from pests and diseases, global trends of urbanization and diet changes, and macroeconomic pressures. BASF aims to help farmers produce more and better quality food while preserving the environment through solutions across chemistry, biology, and digital technologies.
Powerpoint of one of my PhD studies on how food-related professionals working in the food system in multiple institutions value food (as a commons or a commodity) and how this valuation shapes preferred food policies.
Presented at International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), Stockholm, 20-23 of March 2016
http://www.ces.uc.pt/undisciplined-environments/index.php?id=12410&id_lingua=1&pag=12507
My first presentation (out of three) in the Master on European and Global Governance by the Institute for European Global Studies (University of Basel, Switzerland).
An analysis of the global food system (production, consumption and crisis) and the two different sub-systems that conform it: the industrial food systema and the peasant's food web.
The document discusses the challenges facing the agriculture industry and the potential for technology to address these challenges. The key challenges are rising population increasing food demand, stressed natural resources, climate change reducing productivity, and food waste. New technologies like precision agriculture, robotics, and vertical farming have the potential to produce food more efficiently and sustainably. Governments will need to play a role in facilitating innovation through targeted programs and public-private partnerships.
TOWARDS THE FUTURE WE WANT: End hunger and make the transition to sustainabl...Dr Lendy Spires
This document from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization discusses the need to transition food and agricultural systems towards sustainability. It makes three main points: 1) Ending hunger is essential to achieving sustainable development. 2) Food consumption and production must be more efficient. 3) Governance of food/agriculture must change and transition costs/benefits shared equitably. National governments should establish resource rights, incentivize sustainable practices, promote fair markets, reduce risks to vulnerable groups, and invest in innovation/infrastructure. The FAO calls on countries to commit to accelerating hunger reduction, using guidelines on food security and tenure rights, and supporting sustainable agricultural development.
The document summarizes the strategy of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for 2014-2020. The strategy aims to promote eco-efficient agriculture through developing high-yielding and resilient crop varieties, improving soil and landscape management, enhancing food and nutrition security, and fostering climate-smart and sustainable agricultural practices. CIAT will pursue these goals through research on priority crops like bean, cassava, forages and rice, as well as cross-cutting initiatives on livestock, food systems, and ecosystem health. The strategy seeks to enhance the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in tropical regions facing challenges like population growth, climate change, and land degradation.
Samoa Agritourism Policy Setting Worskhop 2016
Linking Agriculture and Tourism through Policy setting:
Strengthening the local agrifood sector and promoting agritourism
Workshop organised by the Government of Samoa and CTA
in collaboration with PIPSO
This document discusses food as a commons and presents arguments for considering food through a multi-dimensional lens that values non-economic aspects in addition to economic ones. It notes that viewing food only through an economic commodity perspective fails to recognize important non-economic dimensions related to human needs and rights. The document advocates transitioning toward more sustainable and just food systems by recognizing food as a commons and valuing its multiple dimensions, including through innovative and customary commons-based food alternatives.
Samoa Agritourism Policy Setting Worskhop 2016
Linking Agriculture and Tourism through Policy setting:
Strengthening the local agrifood sector and promoting agritourism
Workshop organised by the Government of Samoa and CTA
in collaboration with PIPSO
Apia, Samoa, 13-16 December 2016
One of the most controversial aspects of our food system is the role of genetically engineered crop varieties. While proponents argue GE crops can increase yields to feed a growing population, critics warn that reliance on this single technological solution cannot address the root causes of global hunger. The problems with our food system lie deeper than issues of production, as evidenced by the paradox of food waste amidst hunger even in countries like the US where GE crops are most widely used. True solutions require addressing inefficiencies and inequalities across the entire food system through sustainable, locally-adapted policies and behaviors rather than promises of any single "golden ticket."
Institutional, political and legal initiatives for the prevention and reducti...FAO
Presentación de Camelia Bucatariu (FAO), en el marco del Tercer Diálogo Regional Un esfuerzo compartido hacia la prevención y reducción de pérdidas y desperdicios de alimentos.
Shaping Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition: Im...ExternalEvents
This document discusses the need to transform food systems globally in order to address malnutrition. It notes that malnutrition is rising worldwide and affecting over 30% of people. If no changes are made, malnutrition could affect 50% of the global population by 2035. While the ICN2 framework provides a starting point, bolder actions are needed to fully implement evidence-based nutrition interventions, redirect agricultural subsidies toward nutritious foods, refocus agriculture research, and incentivize industry and consumers toward healthier options. Metrics and data on global diet quality also need improvement to guide policies and ensure accountability.
National Sustainable Food Summit Conference Report 3 Pillars Network
This report provides a record for Summit delegates, as well as a reference for those that could not attend. It is hoped it
will be used as a catalyst for further discussion and may also be a useful input into the Federal Government’s National
Food Plan or other policy discussions.
A well designed ppt for people to understand the Demand and supply topic. This has proper bibliography for you to go through the information yourself and has many important things. Best for the Holiday Homework for children.
A short presentation to accompany a lesson on global food and water security. Blog post with more information about the lesson can be found on eternalexploration.wordpress.com
Food insecurity is both a consequence and cause of conflict. Improving food security can help reduce conflict risk. Droughts increase civil conflict risk in Somalia by depressing livestock prices and incomes. Climate adaptation is key to prevent future conflict. Mapping tools can help plan projects to boost resilience to food insecurity, conflict, and climate challenges.
This document summarizes Maria Fonte's presentation on food security from the perspective of civic food networks. It discusses how the context around food security has become more complex since 2008 due to interconnected crises. While dominant policy thinking still focuses on sustainable intensification, an emerging view calls for a radical reconfiguration of the food system based on new social and ecological relations. Civic food networks and local food markets can contribute by addressing omissions around issues in the global North like food deserts, considering issues of scale and place rather than just large numbers, and envisioning a spatially localized food system built on civic values and proximity through their strategies of transition.
This document outlines a program on managing trade-offs between food security and climate change through future scenarios. It discusses:
1) The interlinkages and trade-offs between achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly between food security/hunger reduction and climate change mitigation.
2) The complexity of food systems and how they are impacted by drivers of change like production practices, diets, and the food/climate environment.
3) How strategies to reduce hunger can impact climate change through effects on emissions and vice versa, presenting difficult policy trade-offs to consider.
4) The document proposes developing future scenarios out to 2050 to imagine alternative futures and pathways to help navigate these challenges
Your welcome email (or lack thereof) sets the tone for the email marketing relationship you have with your subscribers—make sure it's sending the right message!
The document discusses how social media has changed marketing and created opportunities for personal branding. It notes that 20 years ago, marketing involved newspapers and television but today focuses on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The document encourages developing a personal brand on these channels, being responsive to customers, positioning oneself as a thought leader, and using one's brand to find or create the perfect job. It presents social media as a great equalizer that allows anyone to build their own future.
My first presentation (out of three) in the Master on European and Global Governance by the Institute for European Global Studies (University of Basel, Switzerland).
An analysis of the global food system (production, consumption and crisis) and the two different sub-systems that conform it: the industrial food systema and the peasant's food web.
The document discusses the challenges facing the agriculture industry and the potential for technology to address these challenges. The key challenges are rising population increasing food demand, stressed natural resources, climate change reducing productivity, and food waste. New technologies like precision agriculture, robotics, and vertical farming have the potential to produce food more efficiently and sustainably. Governments will need to play a role in facilitating innovation through targeted programs and public-private partnerships.
TOWARDS THE FUTURE WE WANT: End hunger and make the transition to sustainabl...Dr Lendy Spires
This document from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization discusses the need to transition food and agricultural systems towards sustainability. It makes three main points: 1) Ending hunger is essential to achieving sustainable development. 2) Food consumption and production must be more efficient. 3) Governance of food/agriculture must change and transition costs/benefits shared equitably. National governments should establish resource rights, incentivize sustainable practices, promote fair markets, reduce risks to vulnerable groups, and invest in innovation/infrastructure. The FAO calls on countries to commit to accelerating hunger reduction, using guidelines on food security and tenure rights, and supporting sustainable agricultural development.
The document summarizes the strategy of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for 2014-2020. The strategy aims to promote eco-efficient agriculture through developing high-yielding and resilient crop varieties, improving soil and landscape management, enhancing food and nutrition security, and fostering climate-smart and sustainable agricultural practices. CIAT will pursue these goals through research on priority crops like bean, cassava, forages and rice, as well as cross-cutting initiatives on livestock, food systems, and ecosystem health. The strategy seeks to enhance the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in tropical regions facing challenges like population growth, climate change, and land degradation.
Samoa Agritourism Policy Setting Worskhop 2016
Linking Agriculture and Tourism through Policy setting:
Strengthening the local agrifood sector and promoting agritourism
Workshop organised by the Government of Samoa and CTA
in collaboration with PIPSO
This document discusses food as a commons and presents arguments for considering food through a multi-dimensional lens that values non-economic aspects in addition to economic ones. It notes that viewing food only through an economic commodity perspective fails to recognize important non-economic dimensions related to human needs and rights. The document advocates transitioning toward more sustainable and just food systems by recognizing food as a commons and valuing its multiple dimensions, including through innovative and customary commons-based food alternatives.
Samoa Agritourism Policy Setting Worskhop 2016
Linking Agriculture and Tourism through Policy setting:
Strengthening the local agrifood sector and promoting agritourism
Workshop organised by the Government of Samoa and CTA
in collaboration with PIPSO
Apia, Samoa, 13-16 December 2016
One of the most controversial aspects of our food system is the role of genetically engineered crop varieties. While proponents argue GE crops can increase yields to feed a growing population, critics warn that reliance on this single technological solution cannot address the root causes of global hunger. The problems with our food system lie deeper than issues of production, as evidenced by the paradox of food waste amidst hunger even in countries like the US where GE crops are most widely used. True solutions require addressing inefficiencies and inequalities across the entire food system through sustainable, locally-adapted policies and behaviors rather than promises of any single "golden ticket."
Institutional, political and legal initiatives for the prevention and reducti...FAO
Presentación de Camelia Bucatariu (FAO), en el marco del Tercer Diálogo Regional Un esfuerzo compartido hacia la prevención y reducción de pérdidas y desperdicios de alimentos.
Shaping Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition: Im...ExternalEvents
This document discusses the need to transform food systems globally in order to address malnutrition. It notes that malnutrition is rising worldwide and affecting over 30% of people. If no changes are made, malnutrition could affect 50% of the global population by 2035. While the ICN2 framework provides a starting point, bolder actions are needed to fully implement evidence-based nutrition interventions, redirect agricultural subsidies toward nutritious foods, refocus agriculture research, and incentivize industry and consumers toward healthier options. Metrics and data on global diet quality also need improvement to guide policies and ensure accountability.
National Sustainable Food Summit Conference Report 3 Pillars Network
This report provides a record for Summit delegates, as well as a reference for those that could not attend. It is hoped it
will be used as a catalyst for further discussion and may also be a useful input into the Federal Government’s National
Food Plan or other policy discussions.
A well designed ppt for people to understand the Demand and supply topic. This has proper bibliography for you to go through the information yourself and has many important things. Best for the Holiday Homework for children.
A short presentation to accompany a lesson on global food and water security. Blog post with more information about the lesson can be found on eternalexploration.wordpress.com
Food insecurity is both a consequence and cause of conflict. Improving food security can help reduce conflict risk. Droughts increase civil conflict risk in Somalia by depressing livestock prices and incomes. Climate adaptation is key to prevent future conflict. Mapping tools can help plan projects to boost resilience to food insecurity, conflict, and climate challenges.
This document summarizes Maria Fonte's presentation on food security from the perspective of civic food networks. It discusses how the context around food security has become more complex since 2008 due to interconnected crises. While dominant policy thinking still focuses on sustainable intensification, an emerging view calls for a radical reconfiguration of the food system based on new social and ecological relations. Civic food networks and local food markets can contribute by addressing omissions around issues in the global North like food deserts, considering issues of scale and place rather than just large numbers, and envisioning a spatially localized food system built on civic values and proximity through their strategies of transition.
This document outlines a program on managing trade-offs between food security and climate change through future scenarios. It discusses:
1) The interlinkages and trade-offs between achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly between food security/hunger reduction and climate change mitigation.
2) The complexity of food systems and how they are impacted by drivers of change like production practices, diets, and the food/climate environment.
3) How strategies to reduce hunger can impact climate change through effects on emissions and vice versa, presenting difficult policy trade-offs to consider.
4) The document proposes developing future scenarios out to 2050 to imagine alternative futures and pathways to help navigate these challenges
Your welcome email (or lack thereof) sets the tone for the email marketing relationship you have with your subscribers—make sure it's sending the right message!
The document discusses how social media has changed marketing and created opportunities for personal branding. It notes that 20 years ago, marketing involved newspapers and television but today focuses on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The document encourages developing a personal brand on these channels, being responsive to customers, positioning oneself as a thought leader, and using one's brand to find or create the perfect job. It presents social media as a great equalizer that allows anyone to build their own future.
Are you leveraging social proof to optimally boost leads and sales? Checkout out these tricks for harnessing current and past customer success (testimonials, star ratings, customer action shots, etc.) to drive more conversions.
You'll learn:
- What kinds of social proof aid conversion (and why)
- Common conversion-killing social proof cases to avoid
- When and where social proof matters on a landing page
- How to score/grade the quality of your social proof
- What elements make a highly persuasive testimonial (and how to get them)
BONUS: Learn my "CRAVENS" methodology -- a simple scorecard for measuring the quality of social proof to effectively persuade conversion. CRAVENS = Credible, Relevant, Attractive, Visual, Enumerated, Nearby [anxiety points], Specific.
Note: A "craven" is a chicken, quitter, scaredy cat, etc. The CRAVENS model focuses on leveraging social proof to strategically reduce anxiety (i.e. scaredy cat, abandonment tendencies) and in turn boost conversion. Get ready for some actionable social proof tips and some epic LOL cat slides! #RememberTheCravens (scaredy cats!)
>> Presented Aug 26, 2014 for an Unbounce Webinar.
Short link: http://j.mp/socialproofcrowebinar
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/08/27/2014/Crowdfunding-Sites-Infographic - In the last few years, the crowdfunding scene has exploded. It's not just about Kickstarter and IndieGoGo anymore. Now there are hundreds of platforms to choose from, with more popping up every day. But which crowdfunding site is best for your startup, small business, or charitable cause?
In this infographic, we cover 26 Top Crowdfunding Sites with all the essential details so you can choose wisely.
More info here on the blog: https://www.wrike.com/blog/08/27/2014/Crowdfunding-Sites-Infographic
The eBooks you create have the potential to become an important pillar in your content marketing mix.
Do it right and these high-converting "lead magnets" can continue to work for your content marketing machine long after the average blog post has ran out of steam.
But first, we need to move past the assumption that great eBooks are merely written and start building them with all the right parts!
Three business basics to always remember! People don't care about your brand. They care about what you can do for them. Back to basics... Give people what they want, do it consistently and do it better than your competition.
10 Disruptive Quotes for EntrepreneursGuy Kawasaki
People think that innovation happens by sitting around with your buddies and letting magical ideas pop into your head. Or, your customers tell you exactly what they need, and you just have to build it.
Dream on. Innovation is a hard, messy process with no shortcuts. It starts with making something that you’d like to use and that might make people’s lives better. Then you have to get the word out that your product or service exists.
Follow #VirginDisruptors to join the conversation with Richard Branson and Guy Kawasaki as they talk about whether entrepreneurs have lost the will to innovate.
The Live Google+ Hangout with Richard Branson will be live streamed on Friday, May 9 at 9:30 am PT/12:30 pm PT with a live audience as well. It’s sure to generate a thoughtful conversation and innovative thinking. RSVP on the Google+ event to get a reminder. http://bit.ly/1mgP0b6
The document describes a series of sessions for start-ups on marketing and advertising tools. It will include 5 sessions over June and July on topics like creating a brand model, getting traffic, content creation, and data analysis tools. It also provides information on various free and paid tools for analyzing market categories, competitors, consumers, websites, and social media. Key tools highlighted include Admetricks, Statista, SimilarWeb, Ahrefs, Google Consumer Surveys, and Moz.
10 Steps of Project Management in Digital Agencies Alemsah Ozturk
This is part of our ( 41? 29! ) agency's culture series. Basicly this series of documents helps our teams learn the foundation of agency culture, basic rules to do their work. We are all about sharing the data & know how, so here we are ;)
The document discusses the rise of the sharing economy. It notes that sharing services now reach 40,000 people per day across 30,000 cities and 192 countries. The sharing economy has grown due to factors like the recession, excess waste and unused goods, information overload, and a new generation that values sustainability and community over consumerism. Examples mentioned include crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, local marketplaces like Etsy, and communities formed around sharing items, skills and physical spaces. The document argues this shift represents more than a fad and will continue transforming economic and social systems.
This document discusses Flyer, a startup that aims to disrupt the commercial real estate marketing industry. Flyer wants to make the process faster, smarter, and better through the use of digital tools like web and social media. Currently a $500 billion industry, commercial real estate transactions present an opportunity for Flyer to capture part of the $30 billion spent annually on marketing through a business model that partners with brokers.
Go Viral on the Social Web: The Definitive How-To guide!XPLAIN
Creating a Viral Content success story has no recipe. It has a lot of variables, not all of which can be controlled by a Brand. However, this deck offers you the ideal How-To approach in creating tasteful, inspired Content that will help your message stand out from the information noise on Social Web and make people eager to share it around.
This is the first SlideShare adaption of Timothy E. Johansson's 100 Growth Hacks in 100 Days. The growth hacks that's included in the slide are 1 to 10. Timothy is the front-end developer at UserApp (www.userapp.io).
The document provides 10 timeless productivity hacks that will make you more productive. Some of the key hacks include: defining your most important tasks each day; focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking; creating a morning routine; limiting distractions like social media; prioritizing important work; batching similar tasks; eliminating unnecessary tasks; and doing the task you are most likely to procrastinate first. Following these simple habits can improve overall productivity without needing a complex system.
These are the slides I will be using for an executive workshop in Mexico on the topic of "Competitive Advantage through Business Model Design and Innovation"
The slide deck we used to raise half a million dollarsBuffer
This is the pitchdeck we used to raise half a million dollars from Angel investors. More here:
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/98034/The-Pitch-Deck-We-Used-To-Raise-500-000-For-Our-Startup.aspx
It is important, no matter what the environment or situation, to remain productive and make the most of your time. Our latest work hack will guide you on how to optimise your time to achieve the most of your working day.
The document discusses food security challenges in the Near East and North Africa region. It notes that the region faces issues like limited water resources, high population growth, and dependence on food imports. To address these challenges, the document recommends a three pillar approach: 1) strengthening safety nets and access to resources, 2) enhancing domestic food supplies through investment, and 3) reducing market volatility through improved infrastructure and financial instruments. The global community has made reducing hunger a priority, and organizations like FAO are taking an integrated approach focused on sustainable resource management and nutrition to help food insecure regions.
Research Outputs and Approaches to Enhance Food Security and Improve Livelih...ICARDA
The document summarizes research outputs and approaches from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to enhance food security and improve livelihoods. It discusses constraints like drought, desertification, and climate change leading to food insecurity. ICARDA's strategic plan focuses on risk management, integrated water and land management, and diversification to improve nutrition and incomes. Technologies developed include improved crop varieties tolerant to abiotic stresses and diseases, as well as seed production approaches to cope with drought.
The document summarizes constraints to food security and poverty in dry areas, and discusses ICARDA's research approaches and outputs to enhance food security and livelihoods. It outlines challenges including climate change, water scarcity, and population growth. ICARDA's strategic plan focuses on risk management, integrated water and land management, diversification, and capacity building. The organization develops improved crop varieties and management practices to intensify sustainable production and increase resilience to stresses.
Transforming Agri-food Systems to Achieve Healthy Diets for AllCGIAR
Challenges: Why Agri-Food Systems Need to Be Transformed
Opportunities: What Science Can Offer to Address these Challenges
The CGIAR partnership: Our Contribution to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Targets
What will it take to establish a climate smart agricultural world? Presentation on the problems, solutions and key challenges in Climate Smart Agriculture. Presentation made in the Wayamba Conference in Sri Lanka, August 2014.
Martien van Nieuwkoop
Policy Seminar
Discussion on the Key Findings of FAO’s 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report
Oct 10, 2018 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EDT
What is Climate-Smart Agriculture? Background, opportunities and challengesCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Alexandre Meybeck of the FAO was given at a session titled "Using climate-smart technologies to scale up climate-smart agriculture practices" at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on December 7, 2014.
The panel presentation and discussion focused on how these climate-smart technologies can be scaled-up to benefit smallholder farmers. This was followed by a public debate.
CIAT is a CGIAR research center focused on reducing hunger and poverty in the tropics through agricultural research. It faces the challenges of feeding a growing population with less land and water and a changing climate. CIAT conducts research to increase crop productivity, improve natural resource management, and inform policies, with a focus on beans, cassava, rice and forages. It works across Africa, Asia, and Latin America to deliver impacts at scale through partnerships.
Crop failures can result from adverse weather conditions, pests, diseases, or poor farming practices and negatively impact food prices, nutrition, and local economies. Climate change exacerbates these risks by increasing extreme weather events and reducing crop yields. It also threatens food access by raising food prices when supply is low and decreases nutritional value by reducing protein and micronutrient content in crops. Food waste is another issue, with about a third of global food production lost between farm and market or market and table. International cooperation on sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and food systems is needed to ensure global food security.
Creating Shared Value for Rice in Latin America and the CaribbeanCIAT
The document summarizes rice research at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Latin America and the Caribbean. It notes that rice is a staple crop in the region and demand is growing, but production faces challenges from climate change, high fertilizer prices, and narrow genetic diversity. CIAT's rice program aims to develop eco-efficient rice varieties with higher yields, nutrient content, stress tolerance, and water/fertilizer efficiency to ensure food security through partnerships with other organizations in the region. The program will provide improved rice germplasm, broaden genetic resources, establish evaluation platforms, and transfer technologies to farmers to boost sustainable production.
Enhancing Global Food Resources: CGIAR Strategy and its future Portfolio of P...CGIAR
Presented to the Second International Forum on Global Food Resources, 5-6 October 2016, Hokkaido University.
By Peter Gardiner, CGIAR System Management Office, France
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1. Rethinking our food systems: a
practical perspective
Dr. Martin Kropff
CIMMYT Director General
2. SDGs: Food Security a Priority
Food and nutritional
security
Climate change
Food and health
Governance
Biobased
economies
3. The Challenge
Can we sustainably increase food production by
2050
to meet the demand of changing dietary habits
and their growing populations
while also developing economically
and adapting to increasingly pressure from
climate change and depleting natural resources?
6. How Do We Feed this Growing
Population?
FAOStat
7. Challenge 2: Fluctuating Food Prices
For food prices to remain
constant, annual yield gains
would have to increase:
● from 1.2% - 1.7% for maize
● from 1.1% - 1.7% for wheat
Diseases
Climate
change
BreedingAgronomy
Projected
demand by
2050 (FAO)
World-wideaverageyield
(tonsha-1)
Linear
extrapolations
of current
trends
Water, nutrient &
energy scarcity
Potential effect
of climate-
change-induced
heat stress on
today’s cultivars
(intermediate
CO2 emission
scenario)
Year
8. Direct Correlation Between Rising Prices and
Social Unrest – Especially Wheat
Source:Lagi,K.Z.Bertrand,Y.Bar-Yam,TheFoodCrisesandPolitical
InstabilityinNorthAfricaandtheMiddleEast.(August10,2011)
(death toll)
10. As a result people are spending more of their
income on food
11.
12.
13. Challenge 3: Producing Crops on
Borrowed Water
National Geographic Magazine 2013,
Based on Geeson et. Al 2012
Footprint 54x Aquifer!!!
14. Challenge 4: Disease Epidemics
Maize Lethal
Necrosis
2 viruses
affect Kenya,
Uganda, Tanzania,
Rwanda, D.R.
Congo, South
Sudan, and
Ethiopia
Stem Rust
Tar Spot
Complex
Mexico,
Colombia,
El Salvador,
Guatemala,
Nicaragua
Fusarium
Head Blight
Wheat
blast
Argentina,
Brazil, Bolivia,
Paraguay,
South Asia
Septoria
Most feared!
Global
China,
Caspian and
Black Sea,
Cona Sur,
North
America,
Western
Central and
Eastern
Europe
North Africa,
Ethiopia, Latin
America,
Southern and
Central
Europe, Iran,
Kazakhstan
and Siberia
15. Wheat Blast – South Asia
A severe, surprise
outbreak of blast in
South Asia—home to
more than 300 million
undernourished people
and whose inhabitants
consume over 100 million
tons of wheat each year.
Wheat blast disease, Brazil 2009
16. Challenge 5: Germplasm Exchange
Confusion around Standard Material Transfer Arangement and
Nagoya Protocol: good intentions to share benefits but expected
restrictions on germplasm exchange
We must join forces to
maintain international,
cross-border germplasm
exchange
Open Access germplasm
is as important as Open
Access data
17. Challenge 6: Climate Change
• Latest estimates are
30 M rural and 9 M
urban people will have
insufficient food in
Southern Africa as a
result of the El Nino-
induced drought and
heat stress.
• The number of people
affected by El Nino
keeps rising.Maize close to harvest.
Zimbabwe, February 2016.
18. Himalayan glaciers melting:
impacts irrigation via Indus and
Brahmaputra
Sources: World Bank, 2013, Shah et.al, 2006, NATCOM, 2004
Sea-level rise/Storm surge:
saltwater intrusion in coastal
areas, (agriculture, groundwater
and freshwater, drinking water ;
diarrhea/cholera );Floods will
increase in
frequency and
intensity Erratic Monsoons
Rain-fed agriculture,
rivers, power supply,
19. Impact of Changing Climates on Maize
Production in Africa
Sonder et al., 2015 forthcoming
23. Challenge 8: Different Challenges
Attainable
yield
Actual yield
Reduce
Yield Gap
Potential yield
Attainable
yield
Actual
Yield
Raise potential
yield
Yield gaps in Southern Africa can differ between 50% to more than 100%!
25. Challenge 9: Donor priorities
2008 food
price crisis
Increased
donor
attention
Budget
increase:
From 300
million to
1 billion
Before: Increased production 2015: Climate change and nutrition
2012-15
Major W1&W2
budget cut
From Aid … to Trade
29. Regional
National
Landscape
Cropping system
Crop level
The Need for Systems Approaches
• Many challenges (climate change, water
scarcity, etc.) are the result of complex
systemic interactions
– (i.e. Sheffer Critical Transitions, 2009)
• The factors behind technology adoption
and success must be better understood
• Policymakers need guidance on their goals
• Breeding becomes a systems activity
30. Sustainable Productivity is not the
Only Target
• Availability
• Access
• Suitability
• Safety
• Profitability
• Use
• Nutrition
Stage at which cereal production is lost (FAO)
32. 1. Invest in agri-food R&D for
innovation, more with less and
global systems approaches
2. Transform smallholder agriculture
and empower women in agriculture
Fix the fundamentals: e.g. markets,
infrastructure and trade
3. Strengthen partnerships for co-
innovation, esp. with new players
4. Policies for the right incentives e.g.
subsidies and insurances
Pathways for rethinking the global food system
33. Example: Crop insurance in India:
Reaching the Unreached
• Weather based scheme
operational since 2007
• 15 million farmers covered
• 67 crops covered
• Subsidized; linked to credit
• Yet dissatisfied stakeholders
• Farmers due to poor weather triggers
for yield loss estimates
• Industry due to limited profits
• Government due to subsidy load
34. • Most widely cultivated cereal grain
• 20% of all calories and protein
Wheat Helps Feed the
World
35. • Preferred staple food to
900 million people living
on less than $2 a day.
• Maize provides 15-56% of
total calorie intake in sub-
Saharan Africa, Latin
America and Asia.
• 184 million hectares
worldwide.
Maize Helps Feed
the World
36. Seed banks –
more than just
museums
Storage
Germination
Testing
CharacterizationRegeneration
Collecting Distribution
Seed
Processing
Safety Duplication
Database
Management
37. Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN): a
success story
• CIMMYT-KALRO team
identified MLN in
Kenya in 2011
• CIMMYT
socioeconomics study
estimates 23% of
Kenya maize
production lost to MLN
in 2014
2014: resistant varieties
38. How Can CIMMYT Respond to El Niño?
• Improved DT maize varieties with potential to
increase farmers’ yields by 20-50%
• CA responds better to seasonal dry-spells leading to yield
benefits of 30-60%
• Combined use of DT maize with CA can improve the
performance of maize by more than 80%
• CA can improve incomes by 40-100% under drought
39. Key elements to build resistance
against El Nino
1. Building capacity in Governments to increase their
ability to respond to El Niño.
2. Provide a portfolio of “climate resilient” options to
respond to climate variability and change
3. Improved scaling of technologies in partnership with
development partners and new extension tools
40. Strategic Crop Management Buffers
Crops Against Stress
CIMMYT HQ, Mexico, 2009
(worst drought on record)
43. Airborne Remote Sensing to Examine Plant
Properties
Helium Blimp Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
• Fast, non-destructive screening over large areas.
• Avoids temporal variation associated with ground based measurements.
• Higher spatial resolution compared with satellite imagery.
44. SkyWalker
SkyWalker allows (a) thermal and (b) multispectral images to be captured across a
field block within minutes. (Images courtesy: Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada, CSICI)
SkyWalker, a customized UAV
under testing in CIMMYT-Harare
Station
45. Malnutrition / Hidden hunger
Care of children and women
Quality diets
Nutritional
education
Fortification
Suplementation
AGRICULTURE: BIOFORTIFICACION
Better or similar agronomic performace
46. Processing Advantage Disadvantage
Grinding (Decortificacion,
degerminacion)
Increase protein
digestability
Loss of fiber,
micronutrientes
Lime-cooking
(nixtamalization)
Increase of bioavailable Ca
Increase bioavailability of
niacin
Decrease protein
digestability
Decrease bioavailability of
lysine
Cooking and cooling Increase resistant starch
Germination Increase protein
digestability
Fermentation Increase digestability of
nutrients, hydrolisis of
phytates, Vit B12 and C.
Effect of processing on nutritional value of maize
50. World Cereal Production–Areas Saved
Through Improved Technology, 1950-2000
CEREAL PRODUCTION
1950 650 million t
2000 1,900 million t
1,800
1,400
1,000
600
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
LAND SPARED
1.1 billion ha
LAND USED
660 million ha
Millionhectares
200
Source: FAO Production Yearbooks and AGROSTATBorlaug, 2004
53. Food Security is an Escalating
Concern
BUT, Policy Makers, Regulators and
Scientists CAN Provide Solutions
54. Thank you!
Photo Credits (top left to bottom right): Julia Cumes/CIMMYT, Awais
Yaqub/CIMMYT, CIMMYT archives, Marcelo Ortiz/CIMMYT, David
Hansen/University of Minnesota, CIMMYT archives, CIMMYT archives
(maize), Ranak Martin/CIMMYT, CIMMYT archives.
Editor's Notes
Goal 2 in details:
2.1 by 2030 end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.2 by 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons
2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 by 2030 ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.5 by 2020 maintain genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at national, regional and international levels, and ensure access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge as internationally agreed
2.a increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development, and plant and livestock gene banks to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular in least developed countries
2.b. correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets including by the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.c. adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives, and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Goal 1End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 14Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
This slide is a build – shows both 1960 and 2050
This slide is a build – shows both 1960 and 2050
This study was based on the arab spring in North Africa and Middle East – high wheat eating areas.
The black line shows food prices, the red dashed vertical lines correspond to beginning dates of “food riots” and protests associated with overall death toll reported in parentheses
Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease (MLND) is a result of a combination of two viruses, the Maize Chlorotic Mottle Virus (MCMoV) and any of the cereal viruses in the Potyviridae group, like the Sugarcane Mosaic Virus (SCMV), Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (WSMV) or Maize Dwarf Mosaic Virus (MDMV).
Tar spot complex caused by Phyllachora maydis and Monographella maydis in association. Affected ears are light in weight with loose kernels. Many kernels at the tip of the ear show premature germination while still on the cob.
The wheat blast pathogen is Magnaporthe oryzae. Although it is the same fungal species that causes rice blast, the wheat blast pathogen is a distinct population of M. oryzae (referred as M. oryzae Triticum population) and does not cause disease in rice.
Stem rust is the most feared disease of wheat. Stem rust spores arriving as late as one month before harvest can turn a previously healthy crop into a tangled mass of stems, which produces little to no grain. Moderately infected fields can produce as many as 1011 spores/hectare, which are picked up by wind currents, resulting in the movement of astronomical numbers of rust spores hundreds or thousands of kilometers to infect other regions.
Fusarium head blight of wheat (FHB), also called head scab, is caused mainly by the fungus Gibberella zeae (also known as Fusarium graminearum). This disease periodically causes significant yield loss and reduced grain quality. Gibberella zeae also produces mycotoxins, which are chemicals that are toxic to humans and livestock.
Septoria – two major diseases. These are Septoria tritici blotch, incited by the fungus Septoria tritici (teleomorph: Mycophaerella graminicola), and Septoria nodorum blotch, caused by the fungus Septoria nodorum (teleomorph: Leptosphaeria nodorum). Both diseases cause serious yield losses reported to range from 31 to 53 percent
One of the most fearsome and intractable in recent decades is wheat blast, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.
It directly strikes the wheat ear and can shrivel and deform the grain in less than a week from first symptoms, leaving farmers no time to act.
Fungicides typically provide only a partial defense. They are also often hard to obtain or use in the regions where blast occurs, and must be applied well before any symptoms appear—a prohibitive expense for many farmers.
Maize megaenvironments are based on a combination of temperature and rainful. They are determine by comparing changes over time. The current megaenvironments are 1950 – 2000, future megaenvironments 2039 - 2070
These maps were an ensemble of 30 models:
Orange – the maize megaenvironment will be lost – meaning that there is potential that maize will not be productive anymore and farmers will have to switch to sorghum or millet as an alternative.
Red – based on Fischer, Byerlee and Edmeades ( yield potential by mega environment) people may be able to grow maize, but will be very dependent on improved varieties and improved technologies
Dark green – changes could be beneficial for yield
Current MEs do not currently include dry lowlands hot, humid lowlands hot
ME’s established by Marianne and ?? 1995
Maize ME (do not include irrigation)
Arrow from attainable to potential (always a small yield gap)
Yield gaps exist in most countries, ranging from almost negligible in the Netherlands to 90 percent in many African environments.
Yield gap between attainable yield and actual yield
Maize in southern Africa is characterised by both low yields and large year to year variability. The left graph shows yield variability in the top 5 maize producing countries in the world, the right graph shows yield variability in southern African countries
Food System Shock:
The insurance impacts of acute disruption to global food supply. Lloyds Emerging Risk Report – 2015
Experts developed a plausible scenario of a global staple crop production shock, and the cascade of impacts that could result
S is for socioeconomics
Mention that it is named after Glenn Anderson
Results are from long-term on-farm trials from southern Africa
Objective 1. Create knowledge and build the capacity of governments and institutions to reduce climate risks
Objective 2. Reduce variability and sustainably improve agricultural productivity of smallholder and emerging commercial farmers to increase national food and nutritional security
Objective 3. Improved scaling approaches to increase the knowledge and adaptive capacity of smallholder and emerging commercial farmers
Women removing kernals from an ear of corn.
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