The fourth edition of the IGAD Regional Focus of the Global Report on Food Crises highlights the alarming high-levels of acute food insecurity in 2021 in the region, where about 42 million people were estimated to be in Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3 o...
For the outlook period of October 2022 to January 2023, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are issuing an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in 19 hunger hotspots. These are...
This is a “thematic evaluation of supply chain outcomes in the food system in Eastern Africa”, commissioned by the logistics unit in WFP Regional Bureau for East Africa in Nairobi (WFP RBN). The primary objective of this evaluation is to identify and...
Loss and damage is a term used to describe the aftermath of the impacts of climate change as mitigation efforts fail and emissions continue to rise, and the consequences of climate change go beyond what people can adapt to. This paper looks at the so...
Nutrition and food systems are not sectors by themselves; they are dependent on actions that originate from a range of sectors such as agriculture, food security, public health, water, sanitation and hygiene, and social protection. Their interrelatio...
This policy brief provides an overview of the trade finance landscape for SMEs in Africa. It focuses on the importance of trade finance for such enterprises and the key challenges they face in accessing bank-intermediated trade finance. It...
The experiment evaluated the effect of supplementing sheep fed natural pasture hay with processed sweet lupin grain on growth performance and its economic feasibility. The finding revealed that use of steamed lupin shown to improve the nutritive valu...
The illegal trade in wild fauna and flora involves the harvesting, procurement, transport, and distribution both domestically and internationally, of animals and plants, as well as their parts and derivatives, in violation of laws and treaties. It ra...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 52% of women are employed in the agricultural sector making it impossible to talk about agribusiness without including women. The youth agribusiness strategy must thus explicitly engage young women and men equally. It must also...
Zimbabwe has a long history of providing subsidies to farmers. The policies that have defined these subsidies have changed over time and led periodically to significant and unsustainable pressure on fiscal resources. Agricultural subsidy costs are a...
The report finds that repurposing a portion of government spending on agriculture each year to develop and disseminate more emission-efficient technologies for crops and livestock could reduce overall emissions from agriculture by more than 40 percen...
The importance of a resilient agriculture sector in providing food security, livelihoods, and household income was highlighted in many countries by the recent pandemic, as was the capacity of the sector to cushion the negative impacts of the subseque...