In April 2022, the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development released a white paper to provide global donors with options to transform our food systems, to make them more resilient and sustainable.
Irrigation development in Rwanda is typically not demand-driven. Existing irrigation developments have mostly resulted from government-led initiatives and donor support with the aim of achieving food security.
This book documents the productivity trends in Sub-Saharan Africa in three different dimensions, assessing productivity at the aggregate level, the sectoral level, and the establishment level.
This report examines claims about livestock, fish, ‘alternative proteins’ and sustainability, sheds light on misleading generalisations that dominate public discussion about meat and protein and warns of the risks of falling for meat techno-fixes.
Food prices are surging to record highs in many countries, driven by factors including climate change, violent conflict, the Covid-19 pandemic, and supply chain disruptions. This perfect storm has exposed the inefficiencies and flaws of global food s...
Food insecurity was once perceived as a ‘developing world problem’. Today, with climate action failures, extreme weather conditions, fragmented value chains, as well as local and geopolitical disruptions, food insecurity is a rapidly growing issue wo...
This book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges.
Digital Transformation of the Agrifood System investigates how digital technologies can accelerate the transformation of the agrifood system by increasing efficiency on the farm; improving farmers’ access to output, input, and financial markets; stre...
A Decade of Action: Building Resilient and Sustainable African Food Systems
We explored risks today and over the next three decades and examined specific cases to understand the mechanisms through which climate change leads to increased socioeconomic risk. This is one of our case studies, focused on agriculture in Africa.
COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to Africa’s food and agriculture sector and to its millions of smallholder farmers. At the same time, the pandemic has accelerated innovative efforts to develop and deploy the transformative power of digital techno...
Senegal's agricultural profile