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Food Fortification
From promises to action: Strengthening global commitments to fight hunger and food insecurity
All CountriesMenon, Purnima; Resnick, Danielle; Zorbas, Christi...

This brief predominantly focuses on progress and commitments related to hunger and food insecurity.

Agri-Food News and Media
Price monitoring for food security in the Kyrgyz Republic
Republic of the CongoWorld Food Programme

Price monitoring for food security in the Kyrgyz Republic is a monthly update aimed at providing timely information on domestic prices of staple food products and analysis of food security risks.

Agri-Food News and Media
Monitoring food security in Palestine and the Sudan
All CountriesFAO/WFP

This is the thirteenth update of the Monitoring food security in food crisis countries and territories with conflict situations, jointly produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP)...

Food Business
The Next Chipotle: Removing Barriers To Getting African Cuisine Into Mainstream America
All CountriesRuth Nakaar

Problems associated with American - West African cuisine such as limited options for modern African cuisine existing in the U.S. and the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the traditional full-service restaurant model. FUDENA West African Eats helps pro...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
State Of Blockchain In Africa unpacked
All CountriesFast Company

Breakthroughs in advanced technologies; the proliferation of blockchain across industries; and the pressing issues of sustainability and Intellectual Property (IP) are fast becoming the most valuable commodities of the information age.

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Improving the Performance of Index Insurance Using Crop Models and Phenological Monitoring
All CountriesMEHDI H. AFSHAR, TIM FOSTER, THOMAS P. HIGGINBOTTO...

Extreme weather events cause considerable damage to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally. Whilst index insurance can help farmers cope with the financial consequences of extreme weather, a major challenge for index insurance is basis risk,...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Credit Constraints and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies in Developing Countries? Evidence from Nigeria
NigeriaBEDRU BALANA AND MOTUNRAYO OYEYEMI

The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern technologies. Poor access to credit is seen as a key barrier to adoption of these technologies. Policy discourse and literature often associat...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Food Crop Production Data in Africa Post-COVID-19
All CountriesRACINE LY, KHADIM DIA AND MARIAM A. DIALLO

The world is experiencing an unprecedented health crisis during the spread of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2). While the pandemic appears to be less severe on the African continent than in other geographic re...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries
All CountriesDAVID J. SPIELMAN, ELS LECOUTERE, SIMRIN MAKHIJA A...

Our study focuses on a narrow class of ICT products and services: technologies related to mobile phones, services, and networks; portable devices; web-based portals, tools, and applications; and the data and information shared through these products...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
The Need for ICT Based Services in Wholesale & Retail Sector
NigeriaMART

Coffey International Development is managing a five year project in Nigeria to facilitate improvements in the performance and inclusiveness of the wholesale and retail sector The Growth and Employment in States (GEMS)program, an initiative between DF...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
How Digital Tools can Help Transform African Agri-Food System
All CountriesMcKinsey and Company

Digital technologies have the power to transform agri-food systems in emerging markets by accelerating the work of participants across the value chain, including input players, producers, offtakers, and retailers. Governments could assist them by dep...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Byte by Byte: Policy Innovation for Transforming Africa’s Food System with Digital Technologies
North AfricaMalabo Montpellier Panel

The current report — Byte by byte: policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies— summarizes the key findings of a systematic analysis of what seven African countries at the forefront of progre...