Sustainable impacts at scale require the adoption of upgraded practices by large numbers of market actors and their continued usage of these practices in the long term. This behavioural change...
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Soil health is commonly defined as the ability to generate sufficient crop yields while maintaining the future productive capacity of soils and the ecosystem services soils regulate and deliver...
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Key challenges in CSA adoption includes socioeconomic, political, and institutional.
Opportunities for adopting CSA were access to resources in different forms.
Reconsidering the socioeconomic...
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We reviewed inorganic fertilizer use and rice yield in 24 sub-Saharan African countries.
N and P fertilizer rates were higher in irrigated...
Climate change is a constant threat to global food security. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), extended dry spells, heavy rainfall, flooding, and tropical storms have driven...
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2023 has been a difficult year for activity in sub-Saharan African economies. The inflationary shock following Russia’s war in Ukraine has prompted higher interest...
Rice production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has increaed ten-fold since 1961, whereas its consumption has exceeded the production and the regional self-sufficiency rate is only 48%...
This paper is a Rapid Evidence Assessment that summarizes the role of smallholder producers and Small and Medium-sized Agrifood Enterprises (SMAE) across the five Action Tracks associated with the Food Systems...
Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to slow to 2.5 percent in 2023 from 3.6 percent in 2022. It is projected to increase to 3.7 percent in 2024 and 4.1 percent in 2025...
Recent climate change has brought new patterns of extreme events in terms of both drought and heavy rainfall to the drought-prone African Sahel. The effects of these recent...