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As COVID-19 has spread throughout the world, it has rocked economies to their core. This is especially true in developing countries, where safety nets and structures for resilience are nascent, fragile or do not exist. Feed the Future is leveragin...
The publication of this youth-inspired edition coincides with the International Youth Day, 12 August 2020. The theme for this International Youth Day, “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young...
Food trade in East Africa during the month was characterized by trade deficits across major commodities in all the AGRA-focus countries. Most countries had trade deficits with a few countries recording exports. Import dependency was high in the whe...
The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, and white- or yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes, Ipomoea batatas, are widely grown in Uganda as both food and cash crops. Beans and sweet potatoes are common staples in Uganda, providing hearty, affordable nourishm...
“Single hazards are a major challenge to reducing poverty and malnutrition but the combined impact of multiple hazards can be devastating. COVID-19 has further amplified these and risks pushing fragile food systems further into nutritional crisis.”...
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....