Enhancing Sustainable Agriculture blog posts

Young academics will benefit from training to address the complex and interlinked challenges – or ‘wicked problems’ – in the policy and planning sector, in order to solve today's global biodiversity, climate, land and water crisis.

New study suggest researchers can predict restoration interventions with high likelihood of economic returns.

Policy makers must look at the broader implications while researchers by nature zoom in on narrow issues, resulting in a communications malfunction between them. A recent paper on a framework for knowledge brokering aptly addresses this issue.

Harnessing nuclear techniques for sustainable agriculture research: boosting nutrition, tracking environmental perturbations and assessing climate change.

A radical and more equitable approach is necessary to keep up with the changing agricultural needs while tackling full blown climate, coronavirus and other crises.

Op-Ed from the Chair of the CGIAR WLE-supported Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI) in The Hill. Coronavirus has demonstrated our ability to transform food-supply chains at short notice, but the strain on the global food system will extend beyond the pandemic. Here's what to do, from CoSAI Chair in The Hill.

Exploring the significance of eighteenth century “silo-buster” cum polymath Alexander von Humboldt's message on interdisciplinarity in agriculture, and its growing relevance in today's context.

In light of Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize and growing economy, it's a good time to examine prospects for long term food security, says WLE Director in a CNBC Op-Ed.

Anthropocene’s pressure for agricultural production and conservation need not be at warpath, but in fact bring the solution for health, equity production and sustainability

Integrating social sustainability at the heart of sustainable agricultural solutions in not only right, but it’s also the smart thing to do in ensuring both environmental protection and food security.

Farmers perspective points reveal social, economic and political decisions play an equally important role, next to investment in infrastructure, and that intangible benefits for human wellbeing is a missing ingredient in the sustainable development agenda.