This study investigates the compounded effects of armed conflicts and climate-induced disruptions on agricultural input use in Ethiopia, a country experiencing significant fragility due to both factors.
Food systems generate about one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Without reducing them, it will not be possible to stabilize the climate and keep the increase in global temperature below 1.5oC from preindustrial levels.
Conflict remains a major driver of poverty in Africa. Conflicts and political instability in the region have been increasing recently and are drawing more attention in public discourse.
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The Guide to Empower Women’s Businesses in Transition Contexts in Africa offers practical strategies for practitioners, policymakers, and development actors to support women entrepreneurs in navigating crises and building resilience.
Salt-affected soils, characterized by high soluble salts (saline) or exchangeable sodium (sodic), impact plant growth and occur globally, especially in arid and coastal regions.
This brief provides a snapshot of the policy and institutional processes aimed at accelerating the sustainable transformation of Uganda’s Agrifood systems.
This course uses a stepwise approach to identify critical entry points for actions within the agrifood systems to improve the availability, accessibility, affordability, and consumption of nutritious food as part of healthy diets. Explains the need t...
What should we be eating? Is there one right answer? Is it as simple as choosing to eat well? Food must be nutritious to grow, work and thrive.
The 2024 edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO 2024) explores complex linkages between food trade and nutrition. It generates evidence to identify how trade affects dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes.
Uncovering the true cost of food is the first step in making agrifood systems more inclusive, resilient and sustainable.