Cassava flower synchrony remains a challenge for cassava breeders. Progress has recently been made through sequencing and genome editing to ensure more consistent and synchronized flowering, allowing breeders to make the desired crosses.
Irrigation technologies, such as drip lines, moisture probes and automated systems, are often viewed as solutions to reduce groundwater depletion. It turns out that perception of water shortages in the past can affect current irrigation behavior in...
Why Agriculture Research? This February, Feed The Future and USAID highlighted examples that illustrate what agriculture research is and why research is required to meet Feed the Future’s mission of ending poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
USAID Responds to Drought Warnings in Eastern Horn of Africa Following a Joint Alert on exceptional drought conditions and related acute food security risks in the eastern Horn of Africa, USAID announced it will provide more than $39 million in addi...
Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as droughts, storms and floods, severely impacting livelihoods, health and human security. DRR, a systematic approach that prevents or mitigates the damage of dis...
Digital financial services have the potential to promote women’s economic empowerment in agriculture and food systems. To better understand the outcomes of women’s increased access to digital finance, the lending policies, practices and regulations t...
Rural women in developing countries tend to be poorer than men, produce less from farming and are much more vulnerable to an increasing risk of climate change. In Uganda, new ALL-IN research is testing a comprehensive approach to supporting women to...
Climate change imposes a severe threat to agricultural systems, food security, and human nutrition. Meanwhile, efforts in crop and livestock gene editing have been undertaken to improve performance across a range of traits. Many of the targeted pheno...
Malnutrition, largely attributable to poor diets among both the rich and poor, presents a growing challenge in Nigeria. This brief considers the obstacles to food security and better nutrition, particularly the country’s macroeconomic instability, wi...
African countries have diversified both their exports and trade partners over the last decade, African agricultural trade still suffers from structural problems as well as exogenous shocks. Against this backdrop, the 2021 Africa Agriculture Trade Mon...
Ethiopia’s economy is dominated by agriculture which is mainly rain-fed and subsistence. Climate change is expected to have an adverse impact particularly on crop production. Previous studies have shown large discrepancies in the magnitude and someti...
Digital extension tools (DETs) include phone calls, WhatsApp groups and specialised smartphone applications used for agricultural knowledge brokering. We researched processes through which DETs have (and have not) been used by farmers and other exten...