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Where Can We Find the Finance for a Food Systems Transformation?
Marissa Van Epp, Global Communications and Knowledge Manager, CCAFS
A food systems transformation will be central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs. The interlinked Goals of poverty reduction (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2) and improved health (SDG 3) – along with the Goals relating to gender equality (SDG 5) and sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12) – can all be tackled by improving the way we farm and eat.
Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation Balakrishna Pisupati, Chairperson, Forum for Law, Environment, Development and Governance (FLEDGE)
It was quite intriguing to read an article that explains how a sign that sought to promote awareness in conservation, had in fact worked against conservation. A sign was put up in a peatland forest in Arizona, US, to deter people from stealing from the forest. It read as follows: “Many past visitors have removed petrified wood from this park, destroying the natural state of the petrified forest.” Months later, when a review was done on the impact of this sign and pilferage from the forest, researchers were astonished to find that stealing had tripled.
Afforestation Increases Water Supply – But Only with These Considerations Hakyung Lee, Research Associate, Unit of Soil and Land Management, UNU-FLORES
With increasing needs for water and food security and rapid urbanisation resulting from a booming global population, forests maintenance and development face great competition with other priorities. While we are losing forest resources at a high rate globally, afforestation efforts are made in some regions to offset this adverse effect.
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SDG Knowledge Weekly: Spotlight on Green Growth and Investment in Africa
Adam Fishman, Thematic Expert for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (US)
As Isaiah Esipisu laments in an article on IPS News, African media was “poorly represented” at the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the UNFCCC in Katowice, Poland, which closed in the wee hours of Sunday, 16 December. As a contribution to correcting this shortcoming, this issue of SDG Knowledge Weekly focuses on the newsworthy, Africa-related events that took place and knowledge products that were released around the COP.