Ensuring people have the right amounts and the right kinds of food to support healthy lifestyles is a growing challenge across Africa. Richard King explores the role of trade in achieving nutrition security in Africa’s future food systems through iFEED results in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
The integrated Future Estimator for Emissions and Diets (iFEED) is more than a modelling framework. Dr Stewart Jennings unpacks how iFEED models future food production and nutrition, putting people at the centre of projections.
Scientists at the University of Leeds, UK, are working with different stakeholders in four African countries to produce a framework that will inform agriculture and food systems policies.
There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has had significant effects on Africa’s food systems. The real question is how we can work together to mitigate threats that the pandemic poses for food security and nutrition, while building resilience to future shocks. Researchers from the GCRF-Agricultural and Food System Resilience: Increasing Capacity and Advising Policy (AFRICAP) programme …