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This report examines the state of the bioeconomy, the structural drivers of the investment gap, and innovative financing mechanisms to mobilize the capital required to realise its full potential.

This science for policy brief summarises the most recent JRC assessment of biomass supply and demand in the EU, covering the years 2012-2022. The brief combines two workstreams: the analysis...

Highlights: Initial rapid growth in tilapia production in Ghana is partly due to improved strain. Recent stagnation is largely due to challenges with low seed quality and availability...

Highlights: Price stabilization challenges include volatile international prices, speculative attacks and political interference. We describe food price stabilization programs in 7 countries...

Highlights: Cereal interventions, particularly for maize storage still dominate the evidence. For perishable crops, storage structures with temperatures below ambient reduced PHLs. For durables, study...

Aims and Objectives: The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) mid-term greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction will likely lead to an increase in transport cost, possibly affecting the imported...

Africa’s traditional vegetables, including African eggplant, African nightshade, amaranth, jute mallow, okra, and many more, are rich in micronutrients and hold considerable potential...

This is the twenty-fifth volume of the publication on Indicators on Gender, Poverty, the Environment and Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in African Countries by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group...

Drought poses significant challenges to agricultural systems, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, emphasizing the need to understand resilience strategies and their determinants to inform climate policies...

The food system, spanning from pre-production processes to post-production stages, is responsible for about one third of global greenhouse gas emissions and requires significant mitigation efforts to prevent...