Policy and Advocacy
Feed Africa: Strategy For Agricultural Transformation In Africa 2016-2025
All CountriesAfrican Development Bank Group
All

The AfDB’s Feed Africa strategy has four specific goals: contribute to eliminating extreme poverty in Africa by 2025; end hunger and malnutrition in Africa by 2025; make Africa a net food exporter; and move Africa to the top of export‑orientated glob...

Food Business
Food Security Monitor - June 2022
All CountriesAGRA
All

AGRA’s Food Security Monitor provides an overview assessment of the food security outlook in AGRA focus countries in East, West and Southern Africa, considering the movement of prices of main food staples and government interventions that impact on d...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
State Of Blockchain In Africa unpacked
All CountriesFast Company
Processed Foods

Breakthroughs in advanced technologies; the proliferation of blockchain across industries; and the pressing issues of sustainability and Intellectual Property (IP) are fast becoming the most valuable commodities of the information age.

Policy and Advocacy
Agriculture & BRICS: Reforms And Resistance
South AfricaShwetha Govindan
All

This policy brief examines the status of food and agriculture in three of the BRICS nations – Brazil, South Africa and India to discuss the potential implications for future multilateral cooperation.

Nutrition
Impact Of Increased Women’s Incomes On Nutrition
UgandaFarm Africa
All

Farm Africa, through the Livestock for Livelihoods project, supported pastoralist women living in these regions to set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises that will help them generate an income and provide their families with a more...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Status Of Digital Agriculture In 47 Sub-Saharan African Countries
All CountriesFAO, ITU
All

The report is composed of 47 desk-based country case studies against six thematic focal areas, the aim of which is to present a snapshot of the status of digital agriculture in each country. This is followed by highlights of the main findings of the...

Food Safety
Thinking About The Future Of Food Safety
All CountriesFAO
All

In this publication, the FAO Food Safety Foresight programme provides an overview of the major global drivers and trends by describing their implications for food safety in particular and for agrifood systems by extrapolation. The various drivers and...

Food Safety
WFP Annual Review 2021
All CountriesWorld Food Programme (WFP)
All

The Annual Review reflects on WFP's work in 2021, when global conflict, increasing climate shocks and the continued ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic combined to send rates of acute hunger to record highs. In response, we provided lifesaving an...

Food Business
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2022-2031
All CountriesFAO
All

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2022-2031 provides a consensus assessment of the ten-year prospects for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional, and global levels, and serves as a reference for forward-looking policy analysis...

Climate Change
Sustainable Agriculture: Science Brief for Target 10 of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
All CountriesGroup on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observati...
All

The analysis in this brief focuses on the wording elements of Target 10, definitions of key terminology, evidence review of biodiversity in agriculture and assessment of the adequacy and availability of indicators for tracking the achievement of this...

Food Business
Mining The Gaps: Using Machine Learning To Map 1.2 Million Agri-food Publications From The Global South
All CountriesCommission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensificat...
All

The evidence base on agri-food systems is growing exponentially. A CoSAI commissioned study has applied artificial intelligence to mine more than 1.2 million publications for data, creating a clearer picture of what research has been conducted on sma...

Food Business
A Policy And Legal Diagnostic Tool For Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries
All CountriesFAO
Fish and Aquaculture Products

This diagnostic tool advances the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) through policy and legal frameworks. It is a key tool...