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The Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP), led by FAO and IFAD, will direct $252 million in project financing and $2.2 billion in co-financing to 32 countries. The FSIP...

VCA4D responds to the need for quantitative data and evidence-based indicators to inform decision-makers. These elements are often lacking. It provides a detailed assessment of a VC’s operation...

Banana (Musa spp.) is the fourth most important crop in the Least Developed Countries, providing a staple food for more than 400 million people on the planet. It is an important...

UniCARSSA links smallholders and rural entrepreneurs directly with universities in platforms for action to share currently available technologies, adapt them to local conditions and encourage new research...

Cassava is a major subsistence crop for many millions of people in Africa. Since 2004 the crop has been severely affected by an epidemic of Cassava Brown Streak Disease across...

Today in Africa, demand for dairy products is rising. However, dairies have difficulties to source local milk in terms of volume, regularity and quality.Sustainability of dairy production, contribution...

Food and nutrition security (FNS) remains a challenge for Africa, despite efforts made in agricultural research and extension in the past, due to inefficient implementation and exchange of technologies and knowledge...

NUTRIFOODS seeks solutions on how to increase the use of Climate Smart Food Crops (CSFC) in baked products to provide nutritionally-rich food that meets consumer needs while...

Rural food value chains (FVC) in sub-Saharan Africa experience various challenges to implement food securing innovations. In the framework of the ERA-net co-fund strategy the European Commission...

The overall objective of SPEAR is to improve the livelihoods of small-scale livestock and poultry farmers by improving the productivity and quality of local livestock and poultry value chains (LPVCs) in Senegal, Ghana...