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Highlights: Drought-tolerant maize varieties yielded significant productivity gains when combined with other practices), but soil conservation and organic fertilizer have lagged due to barriers...

Food insecurity in Nigeria has persisted for decades, resisting various agricultural policies and programmes since the 1970s. This study investigates the impacts of traditional agriculture (TA), sustainable agriculture...

This agricultural policy monitoring review for Nigeria covers the period from 2015 to 2021, analysing public expenditure on food and agriculture, and price incentives for the key food-security commodities: maize...

This study explores agrifood security in Latin America and the Caribbean using a composite indicator based on FAO data from 2002 to 2022. Regression and cluster analyses were used...

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) by 2030 remains a persistent global challenge, especially under current overlapping crises such as climate change...

Highlights: Seed quality assurance systems for vegetatively propagated crops are challenging. Biological and economic characteristics of VPCs are often binding constraints. We examine...

Overview: Calls for a global food system transformation and finding more sustainable ways of producing healthier, safe and nutritious food for all have spurred production approaches...

An enabling, evidence-based decision-making framework is critical to support agricultural biotechnology innovation, and to ensure farmers’ access to Genetically Modified (GM) crops, including orphan crop varieties...

Highlights: Panel-ARDL methodology examines climate-food-health relationships across 20 developing countries over 2000–2020. CO 2 emissions demonstrate strong negative association with food...

This article presents the results of the first stage of the TAFS project (Agroecological transitions for sustainable food systems: a case for public policies) coordinated by the Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural...