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Comments to the African Union Commission on the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan by Chesterman, Sabrina, Chevallier, Romy, Huyer, Sophia, Zougmoré, Robert B., Zebiak, Stephen E., Siebert, Stefan, Barczak, Piotr, Thornton, Philip K.

“…The Africa Union Commission (AUC) drafted an African Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan (AFSH) and a Soil Initiative for Africa (SIA) for launching at the Africa Fertilizer summit in June 2023. The AFSH is a ten-year (2023-2033) plan to provide guidance on integrated soil fertility maintenance, including the correct use of fertilizer to ensure soil health in Africa. …”
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Food system diagnostics and policy implications: The Malawi case by Matchaya, Greenwell C., Guthiga, Paul

“…This aligns with the definition espoused by the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), that food systems are constitutive of food actors and their interlinked activities from production all the way to consumption or utilization (von Braun et al. 2020).…”
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Taking stock of national agricultural R&D capacity in Africa south of the Sahara by Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

“…The 2013 report on agriculture and food systems by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network released a set of post–2015 development goals, including recommendations that lowand middle-income countries increase their spending on agricultural research and development (R&D) by a minimum of 5 percent per year during 2015–2025, and that they allocate at least 1 percent of their agricultural gross development product (GDP) to public agricultural R&D.1 More recently, the Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa was adopted at the African Heads of State Summit, necessitating the development of a continent-wide implementation plan. …”
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Influencing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change by Cramer, Laura K., Njuguna, Lucy, Arango, Jacobo

“…Adopted in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it sets out a framework for international efforts to address the issue of global warming and its impacts. …”
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Collaborative Solutions: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Agriculture, Energy, and Risk Systems in Africa by African Climate Policy Centre, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

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The state of the world's forest biodiversity by Sayer, Jeffrey A., Iremonger, S.

“…The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), adopted at the Rio Summit in 1992 and now ratified by 169 countries, has had a major impact on biodiversity becoming a global concern. …”
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Launching the partnership and assessing the challenges ahead: learning lessons year 1 and 2: forest partnership from Kalimantan districts to the global market place by Prasetyo, F.A., Obidzinski, K., Dermawan, A.

“…It arose from a commitment made in 2002 at the World Summit in Johannesburg by the Netherlands’ Government to support the AFP’s efforts to promote sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia. …”
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Food price volatility and hunger alleviation - can Cannes work? by Hajkowicz S, Negra, Christine, Barnett P, Clark, Megan E., Harch B, Keating, Brian

“…The issue is a high priority for many international agencies and national governments. At the Cannes Summit in November 2011, the G20 leaders agreed to implement five objectives aiming to mitigate food price volatility and protect vulnerable persons. …”
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What’s the Missing Link? - Reviewing Climate Change Polices in Context of Indian Agricultural Sector by Mittal, Surabhi, Ray, Srabashi

“…This paper is also relevant in the context of UN Climate summit 2014 held on 23rd September and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) aim at a global alliance for climate smart agriculture along with India’s prime ministers speech on 15th august, 2015 and the budget speech emphasising on threat that agriculture is facing because of climate change and government willingness to give emphasis on this agenda in context of agricultural sector. …”
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IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation by Nicol, Alan, Odinga, W.

“…Receiving considerable inflows of aid since the early 1990s, some of this aid emerging after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro enabled the country to begin a process of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), taking the lead from Chapter 18 of Agenda 21. …”
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Third Meeting of the Executive Council, September 24, 2002, Washington, DC: Summary Record of Proceedings by CGIAR Secretariat

“…A report on the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development was followed by a description of the preparations for the 2002 Annual General Meeting in the Philippines. …”
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How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis by Korner, Jana, Thornton, Philip K., Klerkx, Laurens

“…In this perspective article we use the metaphor of ‘swarms’ and ‘swarming’ to illustrate a more distributed way of working with a set of approaches that, if implemented jointly, may help AR4D researchers and their institutions to step up the pace and scale for food systems transformation, as urgently called for in global dialogues around the UN Food System Summit, COP 26, and beyond. We identify four roles for AR4D within swarmed design: facilitating the directionality of swarms, fostering swarm mentality and reativity, engaging with swarms in different innovation spaces, and building up and monitoring swarm intelligence. …”
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Editorial: Beyond the food systems framework: food system transitions toward sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries by Berg, Marrit van den, Lecoutere, Els, Termote, Céline, Hunter, Danny

“…Reshaping how we produce and consume food ensuring human and planetary health is a key global challenge highlighted by recent and ongoing UN dialogues through the Food Systems Summit, Climate Change Conference (COP26) and forthcoming Biodiversity Conference (COP15).…”
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Food systems, food safety and health by Grace, Delia

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Lessons learned from the Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress: Adopting agricultural biodiversity as a catalyst for transformative global food systems by Zaccari, Claudia, Vivo, Romano de, Pawera, Lukas, Termote, Céline, Hunter, Danny, Borelli, Teresa, Kettle, Christopher J., Maas, Bea, Novotny, Ivan, Cherico Wanger, Thomas, Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan, Fadda, Carlo, Gee, Eliot

“…The take-home messages from this Congress support the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit to chart a path of concrete actions that can deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…”
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Honduras food system profile: Better understanding food systems at country level by Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca, Wissen, Denise van, Lundy, Mark M., Bene, Christophe, Chege, Christine Gacheri Kiria, Hernandez, Ricardo, Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando

“…We expect these profiles to contribute to relevant international processes, following the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021. This Honduras food system profile (also available in Spanish) is composed of three main blocks of information: (a) system drivers; (b) system components; and (c) system outcomes.…”
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Food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges in a post-pandemic world by Graziano da Silva, Silva, Jales, Mario, Rapallo, Ricardo, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Girardi, Guido, del Grossi, Mauro

“…The book has been prepared by authors from different international organizations – including FAO, IFPRI, UNCTAD and ECLAC, as well as legislators and academics from prestigious Latin American universities – seeking to foster reflections for the Global Food Systems Summit, to be held in September 2021. It contextualizes the region’s food systems within a post COVID-19 pandemic scenario and raises new challenges (and opportunities) for makers, decision makers, the private sector, and the general public. …”
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Making SMARTer commitments to nutrition action: Global nutrition report guidance note by Fanzo, Jessica, Hawkes, Corinna, Rosettie, Katherine

“…We also call on all actors—governments, international agencies, bilateral agencies, civil society organizations, and businesses—to revise or extend SMART and ambitious commitments as part of the 2016 N4G Rio Summit process. Actors in other sectors should also specify in a SMART manner how commitments in their own sectors can help advance nutrition.…”
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The geography and causes of food insecurity in developing countries by Smith, Lisa C., Elobeid, Amani, Jensen, Helen H.

“…At the 1996 World Food Summit, 186 countries made a commitment to reduce the number of chronically undernourished people by half by 2015. …”
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