The third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was released last week. The report finds both good news and bad news for Africa’s trading system, as well as a few promising trends.
The third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was released last week. The report finds both good news and bad news for Africa’s trading system, as well as a few promising trends.
(Cross-post from IFPRI.org) As food systems in developing countries change rapidly, one important trend is the growing role of modern supermarkets in urban food retailing, with far-reaching implications for food marketing and human health. To investi...
Kaduna State is known as a hub for agriculture centred activities with high crop production performance in most crops especially maize. The state is closely aligned with agriculture owing to the advantageous climatic and soil conditions it...
The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition is today announcing the launch of its new Foresight 2.0 report: Future Food Systems: For people, our planet, and prosperity. The report has been produced by an independent internationa...
World Food Day 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in an exceptional moment as countries around the world deal with the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a time to look...
World Food Day 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in an exceptional moment as countries around the world deal with the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a time to look...
World Food Day 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in an exceptional moment as countries around the world deal with the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a time to look...
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, people around the world have been raising concerns about the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy as well as on food production, food supply and agricultural value chains. The COVID-19 pandemic is a globa...
The African continent has the most rapid rates of urbanization in the world. As a result of this, cities are the largest and fastest-growing agricultural markets in Africa, with between $200 billion to $250 billion per year in food sales. According t...
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, policy reactions among the world’s leading food and agricultural producers have led to disruptions in world supply chains, threatening food security systems in food import-dependent countries. African governments...
Africa’s cities currently provide the largest and most rapidly growing agricultural markets in Africa. Out of total urban food sales of roughly US$200 to US$250 billion per year, over 80% comes from domestic African suppliers. In the coming decades,...