I have been working a lot lately and none of the outcomes are really blog-worthy. So, I have decided instead to post a picture that really inspired me today. Hope...

In a sentence "lack of governance to ensure transparency, accountability and rule of law, and representation of disadvantaged peoples, which underpin access to food and drinking water and higher living...

Forgive this bout of nostalgia but when I grew up, fellow Canadians sewed national flags onto backpacks as a way of identifying that they were one of the good guys....

Last week I attended an FAO Expert Meeting on the “Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security” (VGs)and their incorporation into academia. Said otherwise, the meeting sought to address ways in which the VGs could be incorporated into various curricula at the undergraduate and graduate level, and within professional training and life-long learning processes. I was interested in this process as a research student but was attending more in my capacity as teacher in the Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society, UOC.

New book out from the FAO: Integrating Food Security Information in National Statistical Systems: Experiences, Achievements, Challenges Includes a GREAT list of acronyms! Dowload here: http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2588e/i2588e.pdf Abstract: Data collected in accordance with the complex of criteria...

A new report is out called: "The Land Security Agenda: How investor risks in farmland create opportunities for sustainability" It's been published by The Earth Security Initiative, "an organization created to deal with the...