On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swa...
The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 presents new estimates on the pervasiveness of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture and of water shortages in rainfed agriculture, as well as on the number of people affected. It finds major differences acros...
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020 (SOCO 2020) aims to discuss policies and mechanisms that promote sustainable outcomes – economic, social and environmental – in agricultural and food markets, both global and domestic. The analysis is...
The 2020 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture has a particular focus on sustainability. This reflects a number of specific considerations. First, 2020 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisher...
Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies can help to counter the economic and food security impacts of disasters as well as safeguard people’s livelihoods. But creating and implementing effective policies involves knowing the disaster strike...
The purpose of the review is to provide perspective to tomato production and marketing system in Nigeria and focus on significant constraints in the system that would be most responsive to appropriate interventions. Attention is given to sale of prod...
The aim of this assignment was to undertake a market survey to assess the commercial viability of off-grid power demand from the retail sector of Nigeria. This requires an understanding of the power needs of retailers and quantifying the financial op...
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...
This study was commissioned by the Growth and Employment in States (GEMS) Programs, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and supported by the World Bank; to enumerate the wholesalers and retailers that sell within selected hu...
The Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI) is commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Agro-industry. CARI aims to significantly improve the l...
Globally, commodity prices have witnessed wide fluctuation as the combined effects of trade wars, geopolitical tensions and the global economic slowdown pressured commodity performance in 2019. Specifically, the US-China trade war and the global econ...
The latest population census in Egypt shows that there are more people now living along the narrow strip of land by the Nile than ever before, 95 million (CAPMAS 2017). The country’s rapidly growing population, its limited water resources, and its de...