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Urban agriculture can improve livelihoods and food systems in the city

With basic training and technology, urban farmers can create lower prices and address waste issues

Over the past 20 years, the colour of our oceans has gradually been changing from blue to green. (Photo by: Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Our blue seas are gradually going green

Human-induced climate change is affecting our oceans and it’s something we should be aware of. Here’s why

The increase in, for example, white and yellow maize, us now at 7.75 million tonnes and 6.91 million tonnes, 16% higher than the 2023-24 season.

For better ways to produce food, look to the past

Answers to South Africa’s food system problems could lie in the pre-colonial epoch

S20 warns that climate change is endangering human health, food systems and ecosystems worldwide

The time is ripe for Africa’s food policy to change

Food systems lack resilience in the face of crisis and that feed crises of their own making, driving climate change and fuelling epidemics of hunger, malnutrition, obesity and…

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – OCTOBER 26: Animal Rebellion protestors unveil a banner at the Home Office building after they have scaled DEFRA on Tuesday, Oct 26, 2021, in central London, demanding government support for a plant-based food system ahead of COP26 which is to be held in six days. The protestors have said that they will take action until the government defunds meat and subsidises a plant-based transition. (Photo by Vudi Xhymshiti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Health professionals call for new systems to reduce food insecurity

Health professionals have called on leaders at COP26 to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate, as well as to prevent deaths

A vendor inspects fresh produce on a stall at a fruit market as day breaks in the Lugbe district of Abuja, Nigeria. (KC Nwakalor/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

An African vision for our food systems

Young people, of which the continent has many, could be key to innovating intelligent technology solutions that help farmers produce food efficiently

Bring women farmers to the food security table

‘Put farmers at the heart of food systems’ to feed the world

The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s QU Dongyu says food systems have to be transformed to make them more resilient and inclusive.