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Food Safety
Food Security Monitor - February 2022
All CountriesAGRA
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AGRA’s Food Security Monitor provides an overview assessment of the food security outlook in AGRA focus countries in East, West and Southern Africa, taking into account the movement of prices of main food staples and government interventions that imp...

Research and Development
CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy: Transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis
CGIAR System Organization
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Food unites the world, and powers us forward. Today a powerful and unified global effort is needed to equip food systems to advance human and planetary health to their full potential. The climate crisis is at the forefront of threats to our ability t...

Agri-Food News and Media
Nigerian CEO Sells Nutritious Foods to Low-Income Consumers
NigeriaHWMIA
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“Many Nigerians still regard nutritious food as a luxury so we set out to find a cost-effective solution for families to have access to healthy, safe and affordable food, particularly those at the base of the pyramid,” says Pelumi Aribisala, the CEO...

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Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Practices: From Incentives to Adoption and Outcomes
NigeriaValeria Piñeiro, Joaquín Arias, Pablo Elverdin, An...
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Sustainable agricultural practices enable more efficient use of natural resources, mitigate the impact of agriculture on the environment, and strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change and climate variability. Because these practices usuall...

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Variability in Agricultural Productivity and Rural Household Consumption Inequality: Evidence From Nigeria and Uganda
UgandaMULUBRHAN AMARE, SHIFERAW BEKELE, HIROYUKI TAKESHI...
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This paper uses multiple rounds of panel data to assess the distributional implications of the variability in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. It uses both a conventional decomposition and a regression-based inequality decomposition a...

Policy and Advocacy
Policy Atlas on Food and Nutrition Security and Resilience: Kenya
KenyaWIM MARIVOET, JOHN M. ULIMWENGU AND LEYSA MATY SAL...
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This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) pro...

Policy and Advocacy
Policy Atlas on Food and Nutrition Security: Ghana
GhanaWIM MARIVOET, JOHN M. ULIMWENGU AND LEYSA MATY SAL...
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This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) pro...

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From Bad to Worse: Poverty Impacts of Food Availability Responses to Weather Shocks
ZambiaJAWOO KOO, ABDULLAH MAMUN AND WILL MARTIN
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Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, and t...

Marketing and Trade
The Relative Commercial Orientation of Smallholder Farmers in Nigeria: Household and Crop value- Chain Analyses
NigeriaTODD BENSON, MULUBRHAN AMARE AND ADEBAYO OGUNNIYI
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smallholder farming households in Nigeria results in greater incomes for their households, which, in turn, can drive an expansion in local nonfarm employment opportunities and raise incomes across rural communities. Appropriately targeting agricultur...

Research and Development
Food Value Chain Transformation in Developing Regions
NigeriaTHOMAS REARDON AND BART MINTEN
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In this chapter, for brevity, we focus on the output value chains, but the conceptual framework and most trends are also relevant to the input value chains, the lateral service value chains, and R&D&E suppliers. Output value chains in developing coun...

Nutrition
Policy Atlas on Food and Nutrition Security and Resilience: Burkina Faso
Burkina FasoWIM MARIVOET, JOHN M. ULIMWENGU AND LEYSA MATY SAL...
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This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) pro...

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Malawi: The Impact of COVID-19 and Food System Responses
MalawiCovid-19 Hub
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Malawi, like other southern African countries, has endured several waves of infection since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The disease has had severe effects on the economy, including the agriculture sector. CGIAR and partners have been working in th...