Engaging youth in agribusiness is critical for livelihoods in Africa’s rural areas where millions of youth are unemployed and face many barriers to entry into agribusiness, such as limited education and lack of land (IFAD, 2019). There are initiative...
Low-cost and sustainable agricultural management practices are being promoted in many countries but continue to face low adoption among farmers. We tracked the awareness and adoption among farmers of a number of practices―soil cover, minimum tillage,...
South African extension agent competencies and attitudes for the future: Results of a survey
Our study focuses on a narrow class of ICT products and services: technologies related to mobile phones, services, and networks; portable devices; web-based portals, tools, and applications; and the data and information shared through these products...
In Africa, trade and development depend heavily on progress in the agriculture sector. While African countries have diversified both their exports and trade partners over the last decade, African agricultural trade still suffers from structural and...
For the outlook period from February to May 2022, FAO and WFP are issuing an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in 20 "hunger hotspots" where parts of the population are likely to face a significant deterioration of acute food insecurity...
For many countries across Africa, agriculture remains one of the most important sectors of the economy. Agriculture accounts for 14% of total GDP in sub-Saharan Africa, and a majority of the continent’s population is employed in the sector. In additi...
This 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy situates CGIAR in the evolving global context that demands a systems transformation approach for food, land, and water systems. It builds on our track record of collaborating with partners to deliver impacts...
Food systems touch every aspect of human existence, from what we eat to where we work to how we utilize the land. Food systems are also critical to achieving many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals—but only if we commit to transforming them. In...
The critical role that effective partnerships play in connecting green finance and agri-SME finance has been a common theme across SAFIN’s learning activities this year. Partnerships in this space appear both essential and often challenging and compl...
There are considerable opportunities for targeted investment and coordinated action to address declining production and processing capacity in the maize, soybean and cassava value chains in Nigeria. Unmet market demand is substantial – both within th...
In Uganda, the targets set by the government in 2017 to expand coffee production and sales through the various initiatives outlined in the Uganda Coffee Roadmap offer considerable opportunities for targeted investment and coordinated action to improv...