Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation’s partnerships provide an on-the-ground look at the challenges and opportunities for commercializing new products and services for the smallholder market segment.

Irrigation technologies, such as drip lines, moisture probes and automated systems, are often viewed as solutions to reduce groundwater depletion. It turns out that perception of water shortages in the past can affect current irrigation behavior in...

The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities...

Does Rainfall Variability Explain Low Uptake of Agricultural Credit? Evidence from Ethiopia

Around 30% of global crop production is threatened by climate change impacts and over 300 million small scale farmers do not have access to climate advisory services to help them respond to this threat. To serve this farmer population, billions of do...

Climate change effects on agricultural yields will be uneven over the world. A few countries, mostly in high latitudes, may experience gains, while most will see average yield decrease. This paper aims to quantify the role of market-mediated adjustme...

West Africa is expected to suffer yield and production losses of staple crops under climate change, with more severe yield reductions occurring in the period between 2030 and 2050 (Ittersum et al., 2016). In addition, extreme events, including drough...

Adaptation to climate stress is an unprecedented challenge facing cropping systems. Most adaptation assessments focus on how adaptation options affect yields of a single crop under different weather or climate conditions. Yet, cropping systems often...

With climate change, Egypt’s already arid climate will face even higher temperatures and lower rainfall over key agricultural areas, requiring further urgent adaptation investments. Data from three general circulation models of climate were used to b...

Climate change negatively affects Egypt’s agriculture sector. This brief summarizes the results of a modeling exercise to examine a range of climate change adaptation approaches to counteract agricultural productivity declines. Rather than simulating...

Agricultural production in Africa is generally highly labor intensive with gender‐specific specialization across activities. Using panel data from Tanzania, we examine the effects of heat stress (temperature above 29°C) during the maize‐growing seaso...

Major changes in crop productivity will be felt globally in the next 10 years according to new computer simulations. Climate impacts on crops could emerge a decade sooner than previously expected in major breadbasket regions in North America, Europe...