Occupying more than a third of the Earth’s land surface, agriculture is a massive industry with key implications not only for diets but also livelihoods, cultures and health. Yet they way we produce food is intricately tied with a wide array of environmental problems, from deforestation to pollution and beyond. There’s growing recognition of the need to change our food systems, but how do we begin to solve such a complicated puzzle? Here’s a selection Landscape News articles to shed light on how to move forward.
Food systems change: a low-hanging fruit for climate change mitigation?
Experts at GLF Climate put forth best routes for reducing food’s contributions to climate change
What is needed to safeguard food from future pandemics?
Lessons from COVID-19 ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit
Organic certification: what’s worthwhile, when, for producers in the Global South?
New certification mechanisms are needed to make their costs worth the benefits
From West Africa, here comes the next miracle grain: fonio
New agricultural techniques are growing one of the world’s most ancient cereal crops into a solution to hunger – and a food trend
Locust outbreaks in the Horn of Africa are linked to the changing climate
As rainfall increases, plagues expected to rise in frequency
In African drylands, farmers are coaxing former forests back into life
How “farmer-managed natural regeneration” is taking hold on the African continent and beyond
