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Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have not been spared from the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Articulating a policy response to the impact of COVID-19 requires understanding how and which households have been impacted and if households...
This book comprises ten chapters that run an exhaustive analysis of all the issues in smallholder agriculture. It reviews the state of knowledge on the different components of the systems that require a change to ensure a smooth transformation for t...
The Green Table: A Simple Way of Differentiating Agroecological Products
HarvestPlus and its partners strive to provide better nutrition through staple crops to millions of smallholder farming families. We have kept our focus on this goal amidst the devastating COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. With farmers around the world...
Key highlights from the November Food Security Monitor include: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and South Sudan continued to show very high levels of food insecurity with more than 50% of the population in these countries having insufficient food for co...
The impact investing sector has become a thriving and growing market, since the term was first coined in 2007 by the Rockefeller Foundation – “investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact al...
In the 10 years that Girum Tessema has worked for Merkeb Union, he has seen it grow in impressive style. The Merkeb FCU is multipurpose union that was established in June 2001 with 19 primary cooperatives (PCs) and with Birr 1.14 million capital....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...