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Food Security Monitor - Africa Food, Trade, and Resilience Initiative
All CountriesAGRA

The AGRA Food Security Monitor reviews and discusses changes in selected variables and their implications on food trade and food and nutrition security. The discussions presented here focus on selected countries of interest to the AGRA Regional Food...

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Nigerian Agribusiness Leaders Survey
NigeriaAgramondis

As the first edition, the annual Agribusiness Leaders Survey is an opportunity for Agramondis to understand and shed light on the status quo, the trends, and the development of Nigerian agribusinesses. The rationale behind the survey is straightforwa...

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Regional Dialogue - African Food Systems Background Paper - EN
Republic of the CongoAU

With a view to accelerating the implementation of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, the Secretary-General of the United Nations will convene a Summit on food systems within the context of the HLGA in Se...

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Rapid Assessments of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Availability of Quality Seed to Farmers
NigeriaSahel Consulting

Over the first half of 2020, COVID-19 has expanded across the globe, officially declared a pandemic on March 11th. We are deeply concerned about the impact of the pandemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, and on its disruption to the economy and so...

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Agricultural Sector Alerts: Methodology For Rapid Assessments
All CountriesWageningen Centre for Development Innovation

Rapid Assessments are conducted at the country level through survey and focus group discussions (FGDs). In its approach the Rapid Assessments are inspired by the sector model developed by AidEnvironment1, as adapted by the Wageningen Centre for Devel...

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Online Magazine : CLUED IN #14 -Starting Fresh
All CountriesiBAN

What mindset and leadership skills will help you thrive in 2021? Learn more about mindsets and mental health by reading this fourteenth edition of the online magazine on Inclusive Business! The illustration was developed by Christopher Malapitan,...

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Women SMEs and COVID-19: AGRA Survey Report
All CountriesAGRA

As countries in Africa continue to take measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19, women in agriculture are disproportionately affected by the measures than men. The pandemic is exacerbating existing structural economic, social, and technologica...

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Implementation of Stewardship in African Agricultural Public Research and Development Institutions
All CountriesWalter S. Alhassan, Vivienne Anthony, Patrick Rude...

The commercial use of biotech crops developed using genetic modification (GM) technologies is very limited in sub-Saharan African agriculture. Efforts are on-going to address this. The need to implement best practices in stewardship to support the r...

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Sustainable and Equitable Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Productivity and Consumption are Needed to Achieve Global Nutrition Security
All CountriesAlison Edwards (Stewardship Index for Specialty Cr...

Increased intake of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is recommended for most populations across the globe. However, the current state of global and regional food systems is such that F&V availability, the production required to sustain them, and consumer...

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Soil Health Constraints Contributing to Maize (Zea Mays L.) Yield Gap in Upper Tana Watershed of Murang’a County, Kenya
KenyaErmias Aynekulua, *, Robin Chachaa , Ruth Sitienei...

Small-scale farming in sub Saharan Africa is central to food security. However, subsistence farming is not yet meeting its role in reducing the current yield gaps and ensuring food security. Current agronomic recommendations are too broad to be use...

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Smallholder Mechanization Induced by Yield-Enhancing Biological Technologies: Evidence From Nepal and Ghana
All CountriesHiroyuki Takehima, Yanyan Liu

Recent agricultural transformation in Asia and Africa has witnessed the gradual spread of mechanization in agricultural areas that are still largely made up of smallholder farming. While the literature has often characterized mechanical technologies...

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Getting Down to Earth (and Business): Focus on African Smallholders' Incentives For Improved Soil Management. , October 2020
All CountriesDominik Klauser and Christine Negra

Soil degradation poses a major challenge to agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Whereas there is a wealth of knowledge on the consequences of degraded soils, the evidence base for farm management practices that could prevent and mitigate soil...