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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El Niño-linked drought has caused widespread crop damage and wilting in Southern Africa, with 2024 harvests expected at below-average levels. Import requirements forecast to increase...
The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...
In 2022, 258 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity, in 58 countries/territories, with available data. This was up from 193 million in 53 countries in 2021...
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...
Highlights: During the COVID-19 pandemic it became widely understood that strong supply chains have the power to save lives. Many countries face a myriad of challenges...
United Nations – World Bank Group Partnership in Crisis-Affected Situations – monitoring report 2022
Highlights: The report provides an overview of joint work on four priority themes across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus over a period covering July 2020 to June 2022 (FY20–22)...
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...
Highlights: According to the report, Climate change impacts could drive up to 1.6 million additional people into poverty by 2050, further compounding drivers of fragility across most...
This publication aims to document recent trends – and strategic implications – with regards to the development of social registries and supporting digital information systems in the West and Central Africa...