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Renewable energy can play a key role in adjusting the global food systems at the time of COVID-19. A “re-localization” of food supply chains is needed, and renewable energy can greatly contribute to the necessary policy interventions needed to achieve it. As the novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 continues to spread in developed and developing countries alike, not all have the…

This brief describes implementation work under the ICRAF led project “Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale”. Addressing land degradation is key to achieving food and nutrition security and requires active and deliberate engagement of multiple stakeholders (including farmers,…

Research from Macquarie University has revealed a gloomy future for Australia’s river network with dramatic impacts predicted for people, industries and wildlife owing to climate change. In an article published in Scientific Reports, Macquarie University’s Wetlands in Drylands researchers Zacchary Larkin, Tim Ralph and colleagues modelled how increasing aridity, under even a relatively…

Climate change and environmental degradation pose significant challenges to economic growth and employment today, and risks will be greater in the medium-to long-term. By contrast, if properly managed, climate change action can lead to more and better jobs. Both adaptation to climate change and measures to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions offer opportunities to create new jobs…

Most of us would consider our home as the ultimate sanctuary: it’s the place that we make our own and guard from others, a safe space for our families. We may worry over the cost of renting or buying our home. We may struggle to maintain it. But we don’t lie awake at night in constant fear of being evicted because someone else is claiming ownership of it. We’re lucky. An estimated 1…

Investments to support pastoralists in Northern Kenya to adapt to the changing climate pay immediate dividends – but the benefits are even greater if the indirect impacts can also be taken into account. Access to grazing is crucial for pastoralists in the drier parts of Kenya, but in Garba Tulla town, grazing animals would usually have eaten much of the vegetation from the drought…