In Africa, agriculture is vital for employment and food security. Despite women contributing 40 percent of agricultural labor, they face barriers leading to significant gender gaps...
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The landscape of Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region has undergone significant evolution since the last assessment...
The paper emphasizes the need for sustainable financial solutions and collaborative efforts involving international financial institutions, donors and innovative financing schemes to bridge the funding gap and ensure...
The report Creating Better Health for People, Animals, and the Planet: Food Systems Insights for Health Professionals showcases 10 food-focused initiatives that have taken action to promote...
Mozambique was one of the fastest-growing countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2009 and 2014, with annual growth averaging about 7 percent (INE 2020; World Bank...
Inclusive co-design of system innovations incorporates diverse perspectives and bodies of knowledge that can generate solutions that fit well in a local context and over time influence the socio-technical...
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...
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...
Recognizing the pivotal role of Homegrown School Feeding in human capital development and economic growth, ECOWAS practitioners and partners commit to position HGSF prominently on the regional and Africa-wide...
This document shows how WFP’s global framework for food systems transformation is adapted to the context of the Western Africa region.
This document shows how WFP’s global framework...