by Theo de Jager, President, World Farmers' Organisation As the COVID19 pandemic turns everything upside-down in our economies and our societies, we experience a major paradigm shift across the globe for which there is no handbook, no pool of [...]
Q&A Session with Dr Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist and Assistant Director-General for the Economic and Social Development Department at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) As FAO Chief Economist, could you please give us [...]
by Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank A once-in-a-century crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has touched every region, industry, and aspect of life. No other crisis has wreaked as much economic havoc. The agri-food [...]
by Dr Monique Eloit, Director General, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) In a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our communities and ways of life. With devastating effects on society in nearly all countries of the globe, [...]
by Gráinne Dilleen, Communication and Dissemination coordinator for the DEMETER project The challenges posed by COVID-19 for the agricultural sector are well documented. Among others, the lack of availability of seasonal workers, market uncertainty, fluctuating consumer demand and the [...]
by Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Manager, International Relations Division, Agricultural Policy Department JA is a unit of primary agricultural cooperative in Japan in municipal level and most of the Japanese farmers and each JA in the area are like “one team” [...]
by Mariana Debernardini, Sustainability Liaison, European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA) As industries have grinded to a halt, factories shut down, and homes turned into offices, schools and day-cares, the work of farmers tending to their land continued, full [...]
by Tiina Huvio, Programme Director, Food and Forest Development Finland – FFD, MTK’s agri-agency, leading the Climate Change Strategy for the AgriCord Alliance In the face of COVID-19, smallholder farmers and forest producers face the challenge of how to [...]
by Ndidi Nwuneli, Founder of Nourishing Africa, FOLU Ambassador This year has revealed the startling lack of resilience in many systems across our world as well as the interwoven challenges of living together in society. It has deeply and [...]
By Giulia Di Tommaso, President & CEO, CropLife International The COVID-19 crisis reminds us of the importance of fighting food insecurity. Food travels through a complex supply chain linking farmers to consumers, and the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us [...]