The negative effects of climate change are projected to affect the populations with the least capacity to adjust, but with the greatest need for improved agricultural performance to achieve food security and reduce poverty. The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how...

This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute...

Even prior to COVID-19, there was a considerable push for food system transformation to achieve better nutritional and health – as well as environmental and climate change – outcomes. In 2019, several major publications focusing on transforming agricultural and food systems to achieve...

Food systems must serve different societal, health, and environmental objectives. They therefore face numerous challenges. This paper highlights five fundamental paradigm shifts that are required to overcome trade-offs and build synergies between health and nutrition, inclusive livelihoods,...

Adoption rates of improved or modern varieties (MV) of sorghum in eastern Ethiopia are generally low. Although these MV may represent an effective means of coping with droughts, given their early maturing traits, landraces could prove to be more drought‐tolerant and better adapted to marginal...

The relationship between crop genetic diversity, food security and farm household well-being has received extensive study from economists. Public investments in research and development of improved crop varieties under the green revolution resulted in increased agricultural production and...