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Highlights: This study focuses on the potential of off-farm production and marketing of organic and biofertilisers (OFBF) to contribute to soil health in Africa , and particularly in SSA: Egypt (Northern Africa)...

This desk review study was commissioned by the European Commission/ DG INTPA to better understand the relationships between agroecology (AE), responsible value chains and agricultural and food...

Highlights: Global food insecurity remains at worrying levels and the outlook for 2024 is bleak. This report aims to accomplish several objectives. Firstly , to raise awareness and provide...

Highlights: This synthesis presents the results of a 10-year journey that IDRC and ACIAR have taken together in funding agricultural research to inform policy and help improve food and...

The aim of this synthesis paper was to describe some of the commonly occurring trade-offs between social and environmental impacts in the VCA4D case studies, and to identify promising situations (“win-win...

Poverty reduction through rural development can be supported by the engagement of smallholders in commercial value chains that are based on rewarding market prices for the creation of inclusive...

Whereas many smallholder farmers rely on rather diversified production systems, commercial market-oriented agri-food production is increasingly concentrated amongst midsize and larger farmers. We...

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 report represents the initial effort, carried out in the frame of the EC Knowledge Centre on Global Food and Nutrition Security, to structure existing knowledge about agroecology as farming...