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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...
Indigenous to West Africa, oil palm is an important crop for both industrial, retail and consumer markets. In 2013, West Africa’s palm oil output was 2.2 million metric tons (MT), which accounts for only 3.5% of global output. Today, the demand for p...
The West Africa Region has been one of the slowest in reducing its many burdens of malnutrition. The World Health Assembly’s (WHA) 2025 nutrition targets were developed to track countries’ nutritional situations, and measure progress i...
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Nigeria. We examine: i) nutrition context, policy objectives, indicators, budget, and activities, ii) key beneficiaries, actors and coordination, iii) monitoring, evaluation, and accountabilit...
The Nigerian poultry industry is estimated at ₦80 billion ($600 million) and is comprised of approximately 165 million birds, which produced 650,000 MT of eggs and 290,000 MT of poultry meat in 2013. From a market size perspective, Nigeria’s egg pro...
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Burkina Faso. We examine: i) nutrition context, policy objectives, indicators, budget, and activities, ii) key beneficiaries, actors and coordination, iii) monitoring, evaluation, and accountabi...
This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Nigeria aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the identifi...
Cassava is a staple of choice across cultures and social divides in Nigerian households. The majority of the tuber produced is consumed locally as traditional meals. It is the most important crop by production, and the second most important by consum...
This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Mali aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the identified...
This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Sierra Leone aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the ide...
This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Liberia aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the identif...
This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Côte d’Ivoire aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. A...