Food Security Outlook. The food insecurity hotspots in March 2022 were South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to push food and energy prices up across the continent creating serious food security challenges...
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.
Learn how inclusive business innovations can improve food security by reading this 21st edition of the online magazine on Inclusive Business!
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.
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