The Reset the Table essay series is published weekly, describing today’s challenges to global food security and proposing U.S. government responses. The viability of cities has become a newsworthy issue during the Covid-19 pandemic as cities have...
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...
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...
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...
Measures to contain COVID-19 are expected to have significant effects on food value chains but with important differences between commodities. Horticultural products are expected to be especially vulnerable because of their seasonal labour requiremen...
Sesame is an important cash crop and plays a vital role in the livelihood of many people in Ethiopia. However, a number of challenges hamper the development of the sesame sector along with the value chain. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing the...
Banana is produced by the highest number of farmers in the Bench Maji and Sheka zones of the Southern region of Ethiopia. Even though the zones have high banana production potential, several constraints hamper the development of the banana sector alo...
Banana is an important commercial fruit crop for smallholder farmers in Arba Minch, southern Ethiopia. However, its sector is experiencing many constraints and limited attention given to productivity and marketing. Therefore, this study was conducted...
Boserup and Ruthenberg (BR) provided the framework to analyze the impact of population growth and market access on the intensification of farming systems. Prior evidence in Africa is consistent with the framework. Over the past two decades, rapid pop...