By Michael Quinn Patton, Blue Marble Evaluation Network — More than 40,000 people from around the world participated in 850 Independent Dialogues in support of the Food Systems Summit being convened on September 23 by the United Nations. The major themes that emerged from those Dialogues have now been published in a Synthesis Report available here. Dialogue participants provided…

by Oluwatosin Ogunsola, Global Landscape Forum Ambassador — Life starts from land and ends on land. Land is an essential resource which serves a number of purposes, including domestic, industrial, and commercial uses. Globally, the pressure on land for basic life needs of shelter, food and water has been unprecedented with population explosion and changing climate resulting in…

by Dr Shakuntala Thilsted, Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health at WorldFish and UNFSS 2021 Action Track 4 Vice-Chair, and Indika Arulingam, Research Officer, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) — Governments knew that youth unemployment was high before the COVID-19 pandemic, but what they failed to realise was how vulnerable even those with jobs were. Globally, youth employment fell by almost nine per cent in 2020 compared with 3.7 per cent for adults.

By Michael Quinn Patton, Blue Marble Evaluation Network — The Independent Dialogues bring diverse people together on a variety of issues to think about and build momentum toward the Food Systems Summit in September. Through June more than 700 Dialogues have been registered. Momentum has been building with a greater number of Dialogues occurring every month since they began…

By Invent Future Global — The InventFuture.Global (IF.G) mission is to support and enable students to develop and improve their creativity and problem-solving skills, so that they will be able to handle and overcome the many problems and issues that they will face in their adult lives and careers. As part of IF.G’s continuing series…

By Lawrence Haddad, GAIN and Joao Campari, WWF — This week the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Global Alliance for Nutrition (GAIN) signed up to a new joint partnership. One of us aims to stop the degradation of the earth’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony, the other to deliver…

By the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI) — The COVID-19 pandemic has left the world reeling, with economies hard hit and inequalities in access to food and healthcare laid bare. …

By Niamh Kelly, Policy Research Officer for the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems — As part of its ongoing work with the UN Food Systems Summit, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition has produced a brief for the Scientific Group, ‘The Transition Steps Needed to Transform Our Food Systems’. …

By Jack Ryan, Partnerships Officer, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition — The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition recently produced a brief for the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit, ‘COVID-19 and Food Systems: Rebuilding for Resilience’. …