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Sustainable practices in cocoa production. The role of certification schemes and farmer cooperatives

Many small-scale cocoa producers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana grow cocoa on unshaded or low-shaded cocoa plots. This has dire consequences for farm biodiversity, resulting in lower...

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Contract farming and the adoption of sustainable farm practices: Empirical evidence from cashew farmers in Ghana

Contract farming has been shown to increase agricultural productivity and thus welfare of farmers in developing countries. However, studies that look at the potential environmental effects of contract...

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Integrating communities' customary laws into marine small-scale fisheries governance in Ghana: Reflections on the FAO Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries

Although Ghana has ratified several relevant treaties related to the ocean, and the country recognizes local communities' customary laws as an important source of law, there is limited...

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Food Plants for Healthy Diets in the Philippines

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants...

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Food, Nature and Health Transitions − Repeatable Country Models

Studying successful country-level food systems transformations, this report identifies repeatable actions, investments, and collaborations that can accelerate the transition to more resilient, inclusive, sustainable, and healthy...

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Agroécologie Et Marchés - Histoires De Terrain

Principalement associés aux fruits et légumes frais et aux animaux sur pied provenant directement des zones de production, les marchés...

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Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa – Case studies on agroecology

AFSA’s collection of case studies shows how agroecology benefits Africa in terms of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity...

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Vegetable grafting in promoting sustainable vegetable production in developing countries

Since 2000, the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) has been promoting vegetable grafting technologies to manage soil-borne diseases (e.g., bacterial wilt) and abiotic stresses (e.g...

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Scaling-up agricultural innovations: Who should be targeted?

We adopt the newly redefined marginal treatment effect (MTE) framework to examine how farmers' resource endowment and unobserved factors affect the marginal benefit of adopting...

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Resilient Food Systems: Programme highlights 2020

In 2020, the global coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed new challenges to the initiatives and institutions supporting the farming communities and ecosystems that underpin Africa’s food systems. This year’s...

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