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This study analyses the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more specifically: a) how different organic interventions enable farmers to practice organic agriculture; b) how organic agriculture comparatively performs in terms of productivity and profitability.
This study analyses the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more specifically: a) how different organic interventions enable farmers to practice organic agriculture; b) how organic agriculture comparatively performs in terms of productivity and profitability.
Blue foods include thousands of species of aquatic plants and animals, many of them rich in protein and micronutrients. This vast diversity offers enormous potential. Sustainably harvested blue foods can help achieve the SDGs by alleviating hunger and malnutrition; improving health; reducing pressure on oceans, water, land and climate; and maintaining or creating decent livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
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This review synthesises the findings from over 100 scientific paper to document the key mechanisms driving trade-offs between Food Self-Sufficiency (FSS) objectives and ten major groups of influencing factors.
The 2026 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) focused on the theme “Water. Harvests. Our Future.” Agriculture ministers from 60 countries agreed that addressing water scarcity and competing uses requires placing agriculture at the core of water policy and governance. In the final ministerial communiqué, adopted at the Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, the ministers affirmed that, as population growth drives rising food demand while water resources continue to decline, effective water governance has never been more essential for the human rights to water and food.
Produced by UN Women and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the “Gender snapshot” is the world’s leading source of data on gender equality and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Drawing from more than 100 data sources, it tracks progress on gender equality across all 17 SDGs. With five years to go, and thirty since the Beijing Platform for Action, the report offers both a warning and a way forward. It also anchors the Beijing+30 Action Agenda, identifying six priority areas for accelerated delivery, including two with costed investment pathways on digital inclusion and freedom from poverty.