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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2014: Climate Change and Smallholder Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
All CountriesAGRA

On September 2, a comprehensive report on the status of agriculture on the African continent was September 2 on the side-line of the 2014 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). As the second in the series of the African Agriculture Status Report, th...

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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2016: Progress towards Agricultural Transformation in Africa
All CountriesAGRA

Over the last decade, millions of small family farms in Africa have experience big changes. These farms are the continent’s main source of food, employment, and income. Many African governments have put agriculture back to the top of the development...

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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2017
All CountriesAGRA

Agriculture is a proven path to prosperity. No region of the world has developed a diverse, modern economy without first establishing a successful foundation in agriculture. This is going to be critically true for Africa where, today, close to 70% of...

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Zambia Agriculture Status Report 2017
ZambiaAntony Chapoto, Brian Chisanga and Mulako Kabisa

It gives me great pleasure to present to you IAPRI’s second issue of the Zambia Agriculture Status Report covering the period January to December 2017. Zambia received good rains during the 2016/17 agricultural season due to the La Niña weather phen...

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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2018: Catalysing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation
All CountriesAGRA

This book was launched during the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), which took place from September 5th _ 8th in Kigali, Rwanda. The report aims to shed light on what governments could do and to highlight that strengthening government capacity...

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Food Security Monitor
All CountriesAfrica Food Trade & Resilience Programme with the...

The goal of AGRA’s Food Security Monitor is to provide an overview assessment of the food security outlook in AGRA focus countries in East, West, and Southern Africa, taking into account the movement of prices of main food staples and govern...

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Shining A Brighter Light: Comprehensive Evidence On Adoption And Diffusion Of CGIAR-Related Innovations In Ethiopia
EthiopiaFrederic Kosmowski, Solomon Alemu, Paola Mallia, J...

SPIA has developed a comprehensive, country-level approach to documenting the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations linked to CGIAR research. The first focal country for this approach is Ethiopia, where SPIA has been working since 201...

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Dairy Farming Handbook - Great Resource for Dairy Farmers across Africa
South AfricaDr C.J.C. Muller

The comprehensive Dairy Farming Handbook by the Western Cape Department of Agriculture aims to support dairy farmers with problem-focused information based on scientific research.“We trust that this handbook, compiled by experts in their particular f...

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Indigenous Goat Production Handbook
South AfricaMdukatshani, Heifer International-South Africa and...

The aim of this book is to assist owners of indigenous goats with extensive farming systems. It looks at ways to improve the productivity of their flocks. It is designed to be shared with farmers in a way that allows them to understand how to find th...

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Securing the Africa Meal Ticket - Our Action will Define Our Future
All CountriesProf. Fatunbi Oluwule

The theme for this year’s World Food Day is “Grow, nourish, sustain! Together. Our actions are our future.” The truth in this theme cannot be overemphasized in the case of Africa. Our actions will define our future. Food and nutr...

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Food Systems Everywhere: Improving Relevance in Practice
All CountriesGlobal Food Security Journal

This article (PDF) in the Global Food Security journal identifies strategies for and performance of food system transformation by assessing 32 highly-cited international studies, identifying and comparing differences in the frameworks used for food s...

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Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM)
All CountriesAntoine Bouet

The third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was released last week. The report finds both good news and bad news for Africa’s trading system, as well as a few promising trends.