This publication digs into the challenges, financing options and the role of private equity in the Agricultural sector in Africa. I hope that this Quarterly will educate and enlighten entrepreneurs and investors about the peculiarities and opportu...
This edition marks the first time that the African Union Commission joins FAO and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa to co-publish the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report. This is a reflection of FAO’s e...
Five years after the world committed to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, we are still off track to achieve this objective by 2030. Data tell us that the the world is progressing neither towards SDG target 2.1, of ensuri...
The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has been the lead implementing partner in Tanzania for the maize component of the YieldWise Food Loss Reduction Initiative (YWS) supported by the Rockefeller Foundation between 2016 and 2019. The ini...
Resilience has recently emerged as a conceptual and operational buzzword spanning every facet of the international development agenda. The rise of resilience provides renewed opportunities for geographers to critically engage with the policy sphere a...
The vision of our Foundation is a bright future for smallholder farming. The Foundation strengthens the farming & #FoodSystems by catalyzing market developments, the delivery of innovations while building capacity across public & private s...
The coronavirus caused a global health crisis and pushed governments to limit the movement of people and goods, and the Eastern Africa region is no exception. The two previous articles from this series focused on the impacts the pandemic is having...
In this paper (PDF) by ECDPM an iterative, step-based sustainable food system approach has been developed that help navigate complexity and is flexible in its required resources, thus enbaling a fast overview or a deep dive as determined by a project...
This report (PDF) by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, WHO assesses the state of food security and nutrition in the world, and attempts to foresee impact of COVID-19. Since 2014 the prevalence of undernourishment is increasing due to conflict, climate-shocks a...
This article (PDF) in the Global Food Security journal identifies strategies for and performance of food system transformation by assessing 32 highly-cited international studies, identifying and comparing differences in the frameworks used for food s...
This post is written by the Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock Production for Improved Nutrition Activity. The pandemic that unfolded in Bangladesh in March 2020 has affected all lives and sectors. However, small and medium-sized enterprises have...
Five months ago, we witnessed the phenomenon of American farmers dumping perfectly good fresh milk into manure pits and onions into ditches. A global pandemic sent our economy into a frenzy of shocks and changes to consumers’ purchasing power that ha...