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Highlights from the recent CoSAI-APAARI dialogue: 'Applying the Principles for Innovation in Sustainable Agri-Food Systems to enhance the impact of innovations'.

How can we ensure that investment not only boosts productivity, but supports environmental sustainability, reduces poverty and inequality, and reaches the most vulnerable? 

The construction of water harvesting farm ponds for crop irrigation supports sustainable agricultural intensification, food security and climate resilience.  

Successful case studies and lessons learned from a study assessing innovation pathways to sustainable agricultural intensification.

Op-Ed explaining why investments and partnerships are important for future food security, and why scaling up agricultural innovation is crucial.

Volunteers are being sought to pilot new Principles and Metrics for sustainable agri-food systems. Learn how your organization can join.

Blog on social equity and inclusion in agricultural systems: ensuring social objectives are included in agricultural innovation. 

A recap of the CoSAI cross regional event with APAARI, FARA, and FONTAGRO.

A recap of CoSAI's recent event at the GFRAS Annual Meeting.

Highlights from CoSAI’s second regional dialogue on innovative financial mechanisms for agriculture.

A snapshot of the lessons learned from the Borlaug Dialogue Side event on Achieving adoption of climate-smart innovations at scale through market systems.

Highlights from the second CoSAI–APAARI dialogue on decision support tools to enhance the impact of innovation investment. 

CoSAI and partner INR consult stakeholders about recent study findings on effective instruments for financing innovations for sustainable agriculture intensification. 

CoSAI's mapping research study reveals big gaps in areas needed to achieve our food systems transformation goals at recent WLE webinar.

Op-ed on the findings of CoSAI India case study stresses the need for more investments in soil health, sustainable water management, biodiversity, knowledge management and financing.

It takes serious investment by government, the private sector and civil society to make finance for nature work for small-scale farmers. This was the headline from a Latin American meeting where...

Snapshot of the insights coming from the first of three Asia-Pacific dialogues on investment in innovation, hosted by CoSAI and APAARI.

Highlights from CoSAI and INR's recent side event on effective instruments for innovation investment at the African Green Revolution Forum 2021 Summit  

Key messages from CoSAI's recent session on 'Agricultural Finance as a Force for Conservation: Innovations for and from the Global South' at the 2021 IUCN World Conservation Congress.

CoSAI will share emerging evidence from its effective instruments for innovation investment study at the AGRF 2021 Summit. 

Outcomes from CoSAI's first regional dialogue, co-hosted by FONTAGRO, with the support of the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Op-ed on the findings of two new CoSAI studies that reveal the current and necessary investments in innovation for sustainable agricultural intensification.

A new innovation investment study shows where current spending is coming from, who is using it and how.

A new study shows that investing USD 15.2 billion more in innovation will bring food, climate and water goals into reach.

A new study shows that combined investments could put SDG2, SDG6, SDG13 and the Paris Agreement back on track by 2030.

Can financial incentives change the agricultural landscape to enable more sustainable and equitable food systems? 

CoSAI Chair, Dr Ruben Echeverria, presents our emerging evidence at the UNFSS Finance Lever Public Forum.

The IFSS portal provides a vital space for contributors to collaborate in conceptualizing and realizing innovative solutions for food systems challenges.

CoSAI will partner with the Tropical Agriculture Platform to promote the role of investment as a critical factor in enabling capacity development.

CoSAI Commissioner, Rasheed Sulaiman V, examines the role of Extension and Advisory Services to encourage the adoption of agroecology.

CoSAI Commissioner, Dr. P.V. Vara Prasad, examines a new CoSAI study which exposes the scale of under-investment in innovation for sustainable agriculture.

CoSAI will take part in a webinar series to set the path for a transformation in agricultural innovation systems in the lead up to COP26.

Discover how investment can drive innovation to create new, workable and sustainable ways of producing food in the Global South.

CoSAI Commissioner, Dr Maurício Lopes, reflects on plans to revitalize Brazil's landscape which could serve as a model for countries facing similar challenges across the planet’s tropical belt.

A new campaign will mobilize a global network of climate champions. Aligned with this campaign, CoSAI aims to influence global investment priorities for innovation in agricultural systems.

From farm to table, almost every transaction in the food value chain has wide ranging impacts on nature and the environment. Food systems across Africa are leading to invasion and degradation of...

Dr. Uma Lele and Dr. Grethel Aguilar have recently been appointed as Commissioners on the global Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI), joining 19 other Commissioners...

In Africa, as elsewhere, people are increasingly living in urban areas –up to 1 billion people could live in African towns and cities by 2040. Just 20 years ago, Africa’s population was around 75...

CoSAI held a Round Table at the AGRF Summit on September 7th, 2020 on the topic of: "Sustainable Agricultural Intensification to Feed the Cities and Grow Africa".

CoSAI Commissioner Akiça Bahri joins the new Tunisian government as Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries. Dr. Bahri was sworn in on September 2nd, 2020 under the new Tunisian...

CoSAI Commissioner Alice Ruhweza discusses what the future of food sytems in Africa will look like after Covid-19 in this interview conducted by Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global...

These challenging times are forcing us to rethink the prominent paradigms that govern our lives, from how we work to how we shop in this “new normal”. As other sectors scramble to keep people...

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Twenty-two renowned experts from across the Global South are joining a major new Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI). These scientists,...

More than 100 eminent individuals, including Chair Professor Shenggen Fan, one of our CoSAI Commissioners, and many other agriculture and food specialists, have signed an open letter calling for "...

The fragility of our global food system has been exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a recent Op-Ed by the Chair of CoSAI.