This publication digs into the challenges, financing options and the role of private equity in the Agricultural sector in Africa. I hope that this Quarterly will educate and enlighten entrepreneurs and investors about the peculiarities and opportu...

This edition marks the first time that the African Union Commission joins FAO and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa to co-publish the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report. This is a reflection of FAO’s e...

Five years after the world committed to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, we are still off track to achieve this objective by 2030. Data tell us that the the world is progressing neither towards SDG target 2.1, of ensuri...

The vision of our Foundation is a bright future for smallholder farming. The Foundation strengthens the farming & #FoodSystems by catalyzing market developments, the delivery of innovations while building capacity across public & private s...

The coronavirus caused a global health crisis and pushed governments to limit the movement of people and goods, and the Eastern Africa region is no exception. The two previous articles from this series focused on the impacts the pandemic is having...

In this paper (PDF) by ECDPM an iterative, step-based sustainable food system approach has been developed that help navigate complexity and is flexible in its required resources, thus enbaling a fast overview or a deep dive as determined by a project...

This report (PDF) by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, WHO assesses the state of food security and nutrition in the world, and attempts to foresee impact of COVID-19. Since 2014 the prevalence of undernourishment is increasing due to conflict, climate-shocks a...

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...

Five months ago, we witnessed the phenomenon of American farmers dumping perfectly good fresh milk into manure pits and onions into ditches. A global pandemic sent our economy into a frenzy of shocks and changes to consumers’ purchasing power that ha...

Kaduna State is known as a hub for agriculture centred activities with high crop production performance in most crops especially maize. The state is closely aligned with agriculture owing to the advantageous climatic and soil conditions it...

World Food Day 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in an exceptional moment as countries around the world deal with the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a time to look...

World Food Day 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in an exceptional moment as countries around the world deal with the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a time to look...