This week’s summary of the news stories, reports, and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles.
Nutrition and Health
Managing food price volatility: Policy options to support healthy diets and nutrition in the context of uncertainty, Global Panel
Uganda: Four Million Can’t Afford Two Meals, allAfrica
Growing Food for Growing Cities: Delivering Good Nutrition, The Chicago Council
The hidden dangers of irrigation in Kenya, SciDevNet
Let’s stop with the frozen food snobbery, The Conversation
Turning Nutrition Knowledge Into Action, The Chicago Council
These vitamin-fortified bananas might get you thinking differently about GMOs, Grist
Helping Smallholders Grow a Pharmacy on their Farms, Next Billion
Future challenges and opportunities
Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems, The Conversation
Tackling the unknown: Pragmatic ways to evaluate sustainability, Thrive blog
How Entrepreneurs and Investors Can Help Reduce Food Waste by 20% in 10 Years, AgFunder
Sahel region staple crops unviable by 2050: Study, This Is Africa
Water storage, management and future of farming, Monitor
Cities Play Key Role in Climate Action, Next City
The Future Of Food In A Water-Scarce World, Forbes
New technologies for agriculture
Good Riddance, Chemicals: Microbes Are Farming’s Hot New Pesticides, Wired
What Makes Good Ag Big Data? AgFunder
Better water, better jobs, Thrive blog
New project helps African farmers address stresses in maize farming, Bizcommunity
Solar Irrigation Pumps: A New Way of Agriculture in Bangladesh, The World Bank
Carbon Farming: Hope for a Hot Planet, Modern Farmer
Biodiversity and genetic resources
Ethiopia’s vulnerable tropical forests are key to securing future of wild coffee, The Conversation
Feeding the World – Part One, BBC Discovery
Seed banks overlook wild relatives of food crops, SciDevNet
To climate-proof our food supply, go where the wild things are, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Seed Banks Are Supposed To Ensure Food Security, But They’re Missing Crucial Pieces, Think Progress
Other + Useful resources
Welcome to the International Year of Pulses 2016 at Springer! Springer
The legacy of drought tolerant maize in Africa, CIMMYT
Tesco ‘fictional farms’ may be misleading, BBC News
Growing Food for Growing Cities: Food System Resilience in the Face of a Changing Climate, The Chicago Council
One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? 
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