Can Food System Transition Through Agroecology Work in Crisis?
Deepening humanitarian crises and drastic decline of humanitarian aid increases food insecurity and hunger levels in the world’s most conflict, climate change and displacement-affected contexts. While humanitarian assistance may support in the short term, communities need longer term solutions for self-reliance.
How to support communities to bounce forward for resilient and equitable food systems that ensure food security for all, when recovering from crisis?
There is a growing international body of research on the positive effects of applying climate resilient and sustainable farming approaches, including agroecology, at small and large scale to enhance productivity, strengthen the resilience of food production and enhance socio-economic equity. But while the gains of transitioning to agroecology are well described in relatively stable development settings, the potentials of integrating agroecology approaches in humanitarian response and recovery approaches in at-risk or crisis situations are less understood.
A new learning report finds that there is indeed potential for initiating agroecological food systems transitions for increased food security and resilience in anticipation of, during or in the recovery from a humanitarian situation.
Below you can find food assessment reports developed at country level in Nepal, Lebanon and Kenya and additionally a Flood and Drought Hazard Risk Assessment from Nepal (see below). In the launch event, we will presents concrete examples of how to ease and de-risk the transition under challenging circumstances building on practical learning cases from the work of DanChurchAid, the International institute for Environment and Development and national partners Agrimovement, Naxa and LI-BIRD in humanitarian and at-risk contexts in Lebanon, Kenya and Nepal.
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