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Conversation with Glenn Denning, Universal Food SecurityJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Glenn Denning, a world-leading specialist in agricultural and food policy to discuss Denning’s new book Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger…
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EbA and AgricultureThis video is the first of three sector-specific insight units. In this video, participants learn about the importance of EbA for agriculture and food systems. This video is licensed under the CC…
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Opportunities of Impact: Joint Green Industrial InnovationThe third impact is joint green industrial innovation. For IsDB, the industrialization of the member countries is imperative to simultaneously increase the competitiveness of each country and plug…
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Reducing food waste in schools, using behavioural insightsFood waste is a global issue, compromising both human health and environmental sustainability. Schools alone contribute substantial amounts of avoidable food waste to this problem. For instance, the…
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Summing It Up: Food and the OceanIn this module, we learned that the ocean plays a vital role in ensuring food security, and moreover that fisheries and aquaculture need to be better managed if we want the ocean to continue being…
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Sustainable Management of FisheriesThis chapter deals with economic solutions to the global over-fishing problem. The fundamental problem of marine fisheries from an economic point of view is that there is a price for fish on land, so…
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Marine Food ChainsLearn about marine food chains with special attention to why fish populations can actually be overexploited. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
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Food governanceThe chapter focuses on what institutions govern the food chain and how can institutions foster equity and inclusiveness. What happens when they do the opposite? This video is licensed under the CC…
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International tradeThe chapter deals with the role of governments in the food sector and as regulators of commodity prices. It stresses also the repercussions at the national and global level. This video is licensed…
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Intangible cultural heritage, food security and agricultureThis chapter addresses how living heritage can contribute to achieving food security. Learners explore how communities have built considerable traditional knowledge developing techniques based on the…
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Implementing SDG 2: Zero hungerSDG 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. In this video, Dr Tim Clune from La Trobe Business School talks about how we can try to…
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Introducing SDG 2: Zero hungerAround 11% of the world’s population is undernourished. SDG 2 aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Ensuring access to nutritious and sufficient food for all people globally…
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Covid-19 Impacts on and Implications for the Global Food SystemThis is a guest lecture by Prof. Glenn Denning, Columbia University, in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia…
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Q&A | Achim Dobermann, Dionys Forster & Gary Nairn | 2017 Apr. 21Achim Dobermann leads a session about sustainable intensification of agriculture. Two guests, Dionys Forster and Gary Nairn, offer different perspectives. This video is licensed under the CC…
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Space for Food SecurityThis case study looks at the story of the G4AW program and its creation to explore the relationship between space and food security. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
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An Inconvenient LegacyThis chapter talks about the role and the fate of smallholders, particularly in Africa, but also in other parts of the world. What is their position in terms of food production, food security, and…
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