CGIAR is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security. CGIAR research aims to reduce rural poverty,increase food security,improve human health and nutrition,and sustainable management of natural resources.
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit scientific research organization that conducts research on the use and management of forests with a focus on tropical forests in developing countries. CIFOR,which merged with World Agroforestry on Jan. 1,2019,is the forestry and agroforestry research center of CGIAR,a network of 15 research centers around the world that focus on agricultural research for sustainable development,working closely with governments and other partners to help develop evidence-based solutions to problems related to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is an international research center focused on agriculture and food systems that provides research-based policy solutions to reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition throughout low- and middle-income countries in environmentally sustainable ways. For nearly 50 years,IFPRI has worked with policymakers,academics,nongovernmental organizations,the private sector,development practitioners,and others to carry out research,capacity strengthening,and policy communications on food systems,economic development,and poverty reduction.
A sustainable food system is a type of food system that provides healthy food to people and creates sustainable environmental,economic,and social systems that surround food. Sustainable food systems start with the development of sustainable agricultural practices,development of more sustainable food distribution systems,creation of sustainable diets,and reduction of food waste throughout the system. Sustainable food systems have been argued to be central to many or all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization that delivers scientific evidence,management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain global food- and nutrition security,working with partners in low-income countries in different regions where agricultural biodiversity can contribute to improved nutrition,resilience,productivity and climate change adaptation. In 2019,Bioversity International joined with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture to "deliver research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people's lives". Both institutions are members of the CGIAR,a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
Tom Arnold is an Irish agricultural economist and public policy advisor who has worked for the European Commission,the Irish Department of Agriculture and Food and Concern Worldwide. He has served on governmental and non-governmental bodies at Irish,European and international level,with a particular focus on sustainable food systems and nutrition.
Neglected and underutilised crops are domesticated plant species used for food,medicine,trading,or cultural practices within local communities but not widely commodified or studied as part of mainstream agriculture. Such crops may be in declining production. They are considered underutilised in scientific inquiry for their perceived potential to contribute to knowledge regarding nutrition,food security,genetic resistance,or sustainability. Other terms to describe such crops include minor,orphan,underused,local,traditional,alternative,minor,niche,or underdeveloped.
The term food system describes the interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition,food,health,community development,and agriculture. A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population:growing,harvesting,processing,packaging,transporting,marketing,consumption,distribution,and disposal of food and food-related items. It also includes the inputs needed and outputs generated at each of these steps.
Patrick Webb serves as Chief Nutritionist for the United States Agency for International Development USAID. He was Dean for Academic Affairs at Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition from 2005 to 2014. In 2024,he was awarded the prestigious 'Jean-Pierre Habicht Lifetime Achievements in Global Nutrition Research' Award by the American Society for Nutrition. He was also listed among the top 2% of highly-cited scientists across all disciplines globally.
Danielle J. Nierenberg is an American activist,author and journalist.
The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction,or IIRR,is an international non-governmental organization working in rural development. The mission of the organization is to "empower rural people to build resilient communities and attain socioeconomic equity through creative and community-led action."
Lawrence James Haddad,is a British economist whose main research focuses on how to make food systems work better to advance the nutrition status of people globally.
Marion Guillou is a French scientist specialized in global food security.
Lindiwe Sibanda Majele(born 1963) is a Zimbabwean professor,scientist,policy advocate and influencer on food systems. She currently serves as director and chair of the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (ARUA-SFS) at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria,South Africa as well as founder and managing director of Linds Agricultural Services Pvt Ltd. in Harare,Zimbabwe. She is currently a board member of Nestléwhere she is also a member of the Sustainability Committee.
Mary Oyiela Abukutsa-Onyango is a humanitarian and agricultural scientist from Kenya who specializes in olericulture,agronomy,plant physiology. Abukutsa-Onyango is a professor of horticulture at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology whose work focuses on African indigenous food crops. Abukutsa Onyango has studied how African indigenous vegetables can be used to combat malnutrition in Africa while maintaining a secure form of revenue even during more challenging weather and climate.
The planetary health diet,also called a planetary diet or planetarian diet,is a flexitarian diet created by the EAT-Lancet commission as part of a report released in The Lancet on 16 January 2019. The aim of the report and the diet it developed is to create dietary paradigms that have the following aims:
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a set of farming methods that has three main objectives with regards to climate change. Firstly,they use adaptation methods to respond to the effects of climate change on agriculture. Secondly,they aim to increase agricultural productivity and to ensure food security for a growing world population. Thirdly,they try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture as much as possible. Climate-smart agriculture works as an integrated approach to managing land. This approach helps farmers to adapt their agricultural methods to the effects of climate change.
Ruth Khasaya Oniang'o is a Kenyan Professor of Nutrition and a former member of Parliament. She created Rural Outreach Africa (ROA) to empower smallholder farmers to reduce malnutrition,she oversaw her country's nutrition policy.
Ann Tutwiler is a Senior Fellow with Meridian Institute and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Food Forward Consortium and formerly was the senior advisor to the Just Rural Transition. She also chairs the Expert Review Committee for the Food and Agriculture Benchmark for the World Benchmarking Alliance. Previously,she was the Director General of Bioversity International from July 2013 to February 2019 and the first woman Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 2011 to November 2012. In 2022,she has been awarded the John Knox Batten Teaching Fellowship in Public Policy at Davidson College in North Carolina where she taught two undergraduate classes in food systems transformation.
The Columbia Climate School is Columbia University's school of trans-disciplinary climate research. Announced in July 2020,the Climate School is the first new school to be established at the university in 25 years.
