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Identifying and assessing adaptation options are key pre-requisite steps to adaptation prioritization and effective adaptation planning. In this paper, we presented a systematic approach for adaptation stocktaking...

Due to the urgent need to protect communities, ecosystems, and economies from the impacts of a changing climate, adaptation is becoming increasingly relevant. Climate change is already a significant stressor on most...

Highlights: There is utility in combining large datasets on food systems for nutrition and health policy in LMICs. Decades of Gambian food system data show adequate gross...

Highlight: West African Heads of State and ministers affirmed their commitment to accelerate investments and reforms to make fertilizers more accessible and affordable during the high-level roundtable...

Highlights: The 4 priority areas of the draft ten-year Action Plan for Fertilizers and Soil Health in Africa are: 1. Strengthening sectoral policies and the policy and regulatory...

The objective of this report is to update the Government of The Gambia, think-tanks and researchers, the public, and the World Bank’s senior management on the state of the Gambian economy and its outlook, together with the structural reforms...

The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit December 7-8, 2021 comes at a critical time: mid-way through the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action on Nutrition, we...

The nature-based solutions (NbS) concept emerged during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in 2009. It...

Until mid-2000, most of West African countries saw a period of sustained economic growth, with diverse growth rates. The national GDP growth of Senegal reached 7%/year...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the contributions of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) practices to the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus balance, design practical pathways, and analyze barriers towards achievement of EbA-WEF...