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Cameroon Country Celebrations for AFSA's 2020 Conference
CameroonAlliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

A local celebration of food, culture and ecology made in solidarity with the theme of agroecological markets in the build-up to AFSA's 2020 conference.

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Dairy Farming In Nigeria, Past, Present and Future.
NigeriaAdekunle Ayandele

Dairy farming in Nigeria has witnessed decades of ups and downs, costing government and investors millions of dollars in losses. This article reflected on the past, current situation and how learning through them can help develop a sustainable and...

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Improving Lives with Nutritious Crops and Foods in 2020
All CountriesHarvestPlus

HarvestPlus and its partners strive to provide better nutrition through staple crops to millions of smallholder farming families. We have kept our focus on this goal amidst the devastating COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. With farmers around the world...

Food Security Monitor (November 2020)
All CountriesAGRA

Key highlights from the November Food Security Monitor include: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and South Sudan continued to show very high levels of food insecurity with more than 50% of the population in these countries having insufficient food for co...

Climate Change
Reducing Climate-Induced Heat Stress in Pigs in Uganda: Policy Actions
UgandaMutua J, Zaake P, Notenbaert A, Paul B.

Pig farming is important for income generation and nutrition for a large population in Uganda, with 4.2 million pigs being kept in 2017. However, future projections indicate that domestic pork production will not be sufficient to meet the increasi...

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Impact Investing A Sustainable Opportunity for MSMEs in Nigeria
NigeriaGIZ

The impact investing sector has become a thriving and growing market, since the term was first coined in 2007 by the Rockefeller Foundation – “investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact al...

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An Improved Enabling Environment Opened New Opportunity for Farmers Organizations in Amhara
EthiopiaAGRA Grantee in Ethiopia

In the 10 years that Girum Tessema has worked for Merkeb Union, he has seen it grow in impressive style. The Merkeb FCU is multipurpose union that was established in June 2001 with 19 primary cooperatives (PCs) and with Birr 1.14 million capital....

Research and Development
Women SMEs and COVID-19: AGRA Survey Report
All CountriesAGRA

As countries in Africa continue to take measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19, women in agriculture are disproportionately affected by the measures than men. The pandemic is exacerbating existing structural economic, social, and technologica...

Nutrition
A Review of Leadership and Capacity Gaps in Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Policies and Strategies for Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
ichmond Aryeetey PhD, MPH, Namukolo Covic, PhD, MS...

Agriculture policies and strategies designed, purposefully, to address malnutrition are considered nutrition-sensitive and are a critical component of global efforts to address malnutrition in all its forms. However, limited evidence exists on extent...

Research and Development
Implementation of Stewardship in African Agricultural Public Research and Development Institutions
All CountriesWalter S. Alhassan, Vivienne Anthony, Patrick Rude...

The commercial use of biotech crops developed using genetic modification (GM) technologies is very limited in sub-Saharan African agriculture. Efforts are on-going to address this. The need to implement best practices in stewardship to support the r...

Research and Development
Sustainable and Equitable Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Productivity and Consumption are Needed to Achieve Global Nutrition Security
All CountriesAlison Edwards (Stewardship Index for Specialty Cr...

Increased intake of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is recommended for most populations across the globe. However, the current state of global and regional food systems is such that F&V availability, the production required to sustain them, and consumer...

Research and Development
Soil Health Constraints Contributing to Maize (Zea Mays L.) Yield Gap in Upper Tana Watershed of Murang’a County, Kenya
KenyaErmias Aynekulua, *, Robin Chachaa , Ruth Sitienei...

Small-scale farming in sub Saharan Africa is central to food security. However, subsistence farming is not yet meeting its role in reducing the current yield gaps and ensuring food security. Current agronomic recommendations are too broad to be use...

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