What defines a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention? Like other food-based approaches, a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention looks toward food to improve nutrition instead of toward fortification or supplementation. A nutrition-se...
Micronutrient deficiency, also known as hidden hunger, affects about two billion people globally. Adoption and consumption of micronutrient-enriched—that is, biofortified—staple crops, is a potential solution to alleviating hidden hung...
Nutrition trials in countries administering Vitamin A capsules resulted on average in a 24% reduction in child mortality. By breeding staple crops with higher amounts of Vitamin A, the supply of Vitamin A in our food sources can be sustainably inc...
Given that coffee production is generally a labour and natural intensive activity, growth in the coffee sector is arguably promising in terms of generating higher and inclusive growth. However, currently climate change and population growth are pushi...
The Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials (PAVT) were established at Pawe located in Northwest Ethiopia in the 2019 growing season. Pawe is one of the regions where soybean production is rapidly increasing. The site is also a hotspot for soybean disease...
The Pan-Africa Soybean Variety Trials (PAVT) were established in 10 sites in Zambia in the 2020 growing season. In March 2020, evaluation for disease and insect pests was conducted at 2 sites managed by Syngenta in Lusaka (Lusaka site 1 and 2), a sit...
Pathogens and pests that attack seeds can cause severe yield losses in the filed or during storage and transport (Figure 1). These infections reduce seed quality and viability and risk introducing novel pathogens and pests into new production areas....
The Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials (PAVTs) were established in Kenya to evaluate the incidence and severity of soybean diseases and pests in the 2019 and 2020 growing season. The PAVTs were established at Kibwezi in eastern, Kiambu in central, Bu...
The Soybean Innovation Lab developed the Guide to African Soybean Seedborne Diseases and Pests for use by seed companies, seed multipliers, research institutions, and soybean processors, whose operations demand high-quality seed. Identifying the caus...
Developing agriculture policy, let alone implementing, is deceptively simple, especially for countries layered with challenges such as poor-quality inputs, fragmented land and high cost of credit for agriculture. Nigeria is one of such countries wi...
Agricultural transformation is a decades-long process which involves modernization of on-farm production, shifting production towards more value addition.
Eighty-three percent of the population depends directly on agriculture for their livelihoods, while many others depend on agriculture-related cottage industries such as textiles, leather, and food oil processing. Agriculture contributes 46.3 perce...