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Agricultural Value Chains In Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan AfricaClaire Schaffnit-Chatterjee

Agriculture holds the key to broad-based economic growth, poverty reduction and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This is due to the importance of the sector for SSA economies, the extent of rural poverty and the dependence of 50 million...

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3 Ways To Transform Agriculture In Africa
Sub-Saharan AfricaIbrahim Mayaki CEO, New Partnership for Africa...

The economic outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa for 2016 gives room for cautious optimism. A 4.7% increase in GDP across the region in 2016 has been higher than expected. However, the World Bank warns that low commodity prices and high borrowing costs...

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Big Data And Smart Farmers For Africa’s Agricultural Transformation
All CountriesForbes Africa

Why data could be the deciding factor in Africa’s agricultural transformation. The world has a palm oil problem. It’s a global, billion-dollar industry and its end result is irreversible environmental damage, ranging from deforestation and fires, t...

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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2020 - Feeding Africa's Cities
All CountriesAGRA

Africa’s cities currently provide the largest and most rapidly growing agricultural markets in Africa. Out of total urban food sales of roughly US$200 to US$250 billion per year, over 80% comes from domestic African suppliers. In the coming decad...

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Being the Agile Boss MIT 2020
All CountriesLinda A. Hill

Leading in late 2020 means carving a new path through an epic disruption precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has spawned health, economic, and social crises that have rendered the best-laid plans useless. With no roadmap for the marathon ahe...

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COVID-19: Shocks on Nutrition and Potential Mitigation USAID Guiding Principles and Recommendations
All CountriesUSAID

This document was developed under the auspices of USAID’sNutrition Leadership Council (NLC). It summarizes the likely impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on nutrition and proposes guiding principles for priority actions during the response and recovery ph...

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Preventing a Food Crisis: Stories from the Field
All CountriesFeed The Future

As COVID-19 has spread throughout the world, it has rocked economies to their core. This is especially true in developing countries, where safety nets and structures for resilience are nascent, fragile or do not exist. Feed the Future is leveragin...

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Leveraging Innovation for a Progressive Africa
All CountriesAfrican Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)

The publication of this youth-inspired edition coincides with the International Youth Day, 12 August 2020. The theme for this International Youth Day, “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young...

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Fragile Contexts
All CountriesGlobal Panel

“Single hazards are a major challenge to reducing poverty and malnutrition but the combined impact of multiple hazards can be devastating. COVID-19 has further amplified these and risks pushing fragile food systems further into nutritional crisis.”...

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Vitamin A-Biofortified Maize: Exploiting Native Genetic Variation for Nutrient Enrichment
All CountriesMeike S Andersson, Howarth Bouis, Nelissa Jamora,...

Nutrition trials in countries administering Vitamin A capsules resulted on average in a 24% reduction in child mortality. By breeding staple crops with higher amounts of Vitamin A, the supply of Vitamin A in our food sources can be sustainably inc...

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Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials Disease and Pest Evaluation Report - Ethiopia
EthiopiaSoybean Innovation Lab

The Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials (PAVT) were established at Pawe located in Northwest Ethiopia in the 2019 growing season. Pawe is one of the regions where soybean production is rapidly increasing. The site is also a hotspot for soybean disease...

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Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials Disease and Pest Evaluation Report - Zambia
ZambiaSoybean Innovation Lab

The Pan-Africa Soybean Variety Trials (PAVT) were established in 10 sites in Zambia in the 2020 growing season. In March 2020, evaluation for disease and insect pests was conducted at 2 sites managed by Syngenta in Lusaka (Lusaka site 1 and 2), a sit...