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China discards less food than the average country. What can we learn from China about reducing food waste across the supply chain?


Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Cutting our losses? Learning from food waste in China]Cutting our losses? Learning from food waste in China

Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative that large-scale initiatives to support smallholder farmers consider local priorities and integrate lessons from successful autonomous adaptation efforts. This article expl...


Wright, H.Vermeulen, Sonja J.Laganda, G.Olupot, M.Ampaire, Edidah L.Jat, Mangi Lal[Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring communitybased adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes]Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring communitybased adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes

As climate change pushes livestock, crop and tree production systems towards new realities, societies may seek more comprehensive solutions. Examples of truly radical adaptation — pre-emptive actions at scale that address the root causes of climate risks and reduce climatic footprint — are still ...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.Mason MDinesh, DhanushAdolph, Barbara[Radical adaptation in agriculture: tackling the roots of climate vulnerability]Radical adaptation in agriculture: tackling the roots of climate vulnerability

Successful value chain interventions that achieve poverty reduction goals can in themselves be beneficial to climate change adaption, as they build farmers’ assets and institutional linkages. But climate change can have major effects on the outcomes of IFAD-supported value chain interventions for...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.[How to do Climate change risk assessments in value chain projects]How to do Climate change risk assessments in value chain projects

As countries around the world face urgent agricultural challenges, the concept of ‘climate-smart’ agriculture (CSA) has been put forward to achieve climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security synergistically. A new report explores how three countries are using integrated policy appro...


Negra, ChristineVermeulen, Sonja J.Barioni, Luís GustavoMamo, TekalignMelville, PaulTadesse, Melaku[Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture]Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that in the next few decades climate change will result in crop losses. But is this really a big deal?


Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Climate change and food supplies: bit of a drag or major upheaval?]Climate change and food supplies: bit of a drag or major upheaval?

With limited global resources, and in the face of environmental changes, meeting future food security challenges will first require a shift in thinking from just ‘producing food’ (and other sectoral interests) to ‘food systems.’ Solutions will need to be applied at local and regional levels, but ...


Ingram, JohnDyball, RobertHowden, MarkVermeulen, Sonja J.Garnett, TaraRedlingshöfer, BarbaraGuilbert, StéphanePorter, John[Food Security, Food Systems, and Environmental Change]Food Security, Food Systems, and Environmental Change

This is the third article of the UNAI ‘Food Security and Climate Change’ series. Schools and departments which specialise in climate change and food security at UNAI member institutions were asked to submit articles highlighting research and work encompassing the newly adopted Sustainable Develop...


Challinor, Andrew J.Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Global Models Must Meet Grassroots Action to Deliver Climate Solutions for Farmers]Global Models Must Meet Grassroots Action to Deliver Climate Solutions for Farmers

This brief summarizes an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) report: The Economic Advantage: assessing the value of climate-change actions in agriculture. The report informs readers who seek to build economic evidence in support of the inclusion of actions on agriculture in cli...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.Richards, MerylPinto, Alex deFerrarese, DinoLäderach, PeterLan, LeLuckert, MartyMazzoli, EnricoPlant, LauraRinaldi, RobertoStephenson, JimWatkiss, Paul[The economic advantage: assessing the value of climate change actions in agriculture]The economic advantage: assessing the value of climate change actions in agriculture

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