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Food Safety
Food for Thought: Contaminants in Groundnuts (Peanuts)
SenegalFeed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

The groundnut, or peanut, has been a culturally significant crop for hundreds of years. Raw or roasted, shelled or unshelled, peanuts are used for consumption among the world’s population. Groundnuts are widely grown throughout the tropics a...

Food Safety
Advancing Food Safety in Africa: Opportunities and Action Areas
West AfricaLee Gross

There is a need for African agriculture to undergo a systemic transformation to meet rising food demands, while at the same time addressing the public health burden of foodborne illness among the most vulnerable populations. The continent of Africa i...

Food Safety
Mycotoxin Mitigation is Key to Food Safety and Nutrition
All CountriesNutrition Innovation Lab

Food-borne mycotoxins pose one of the most significant food safety risks in lower- and middle-income economies in Asia and Africa. The negative impacts of naturally occurring fungal toxins, such as aflatoxins and fumonisins, on livestock health and g...

Agribusiness SMEs
SMEs: Key Drivers of Food Safety In Emerging Economies
All CountriesBusiness Drivers for Food Safety

Food safety is everyone’s business – and it’s the businesses that make up food systems that are the cornerstone for providing safe food. Today's food systems are increasingly more global, diverse and complex, involving an array of businesses from sub...

Research and Development
Africa Agriculture Status Report 2018: Catalyzing Government Capacity to drive Agricultural Transformation
All CountriesAGRA

Agriculture is key to Africa’s future. The continent has most of the world’s arable land, over half of the African population is employed in the sector, and it is the largest contributor to total gross domestic product (GDP). Yet, Africa is still pro...

Research and Development
Foresight Africa 2016: Banking on agriculture for Africa’s future
Sub-Saharan AfricaMakhtar Diop

As countries across sub-Saharan Africa grapple with the challenges of sustaining high levels of economic growth, plunging commodity prices, and the effects of climate change, revitalizing agriculture must become a priority on the continent. The late...

Research and Development
Analysis of Agriculture Data Using Data Mining Techniques: Application of Big Data
All CountriesJharna Majumdar, Sneha Naraseeyappa & Shilpa Ankal...

In agriculture sector where farmers and agribusinesses have to make innumerable decisions every day and intricate complexities involves the various factors influencing them. An essential issue for agricultural planning intention is the accurate yi...

Research and Development
Agriculture in Africa: Potential versus Reality
All CountriesOTAVIO VERASON

With more than 60% of its 1.166 billion people living in rural areas, Africa’s economy is inherently dependent on agriculture. More than 32% of the continent’s gross domestic product comes from the sector. However, agricultural product...

Agri-Food News and Media
Agriculture in Africa 2019: Special Report
All CountriesSouhir Mzali

While Africa holds more than 60% of the world’s arable land, the continent’s share in global agricultural production remains low. Vast areas of land are uncultivated and productivity is lower than in much of the rest of the world. Nevertheless, farmi...

Marketing and Trade
Winning in Africa’s Agricultural Market
Sub-Saharan AfricaGoedde, Amandla Ooko-Ombaka, and Gillian Pais

Agriculture in Africa has a massive social and economic footprint. More than 60 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is smallholder farmers, and about 23 percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP comes from agriculture. Yet, Africa&rsqu...

Agri-Food News and Media
West Africa Fertilizer Watch
West AfricaFeed the Future

The number of new COVID-19 cases in the region rose by only 12 percent compared to 21 percent the previous week, confirming a decline that has lead governments to further ease movement, economic, and health restrictions. „ Six weeks after our first...

Research and Development
Plan of Contingency to Fight Against the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cote d ‘Ivoire
Cote d'IvoireFood and Agriculture Organisation of the United Na...

This book highlights the most urgent needs for an effective veterinary service that can quickly detect the emergence of several priority, unpredictable or exotic emerging diseases. The book contributes to FAO’s Strategic Objective 5 on reducing the e...