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Background Undernutrition is a significant challenge in Ethiopia, where limited dietary diversity and widespread micronutrient deficiencies affect millions, especially women of reproductive age. Although much...

This brief provides an overview of the Investing in Livelihood Resilience and Soil Health in ACP Countries (ILSA) programme in Ethiopia, funded by the European Union and implemented by IFAD. ILSA supports...

Background Governments around the world collect food price data on a frequent basis, often monthly, for the purpose of monitoring inflation. These routine economic data can...

In late 2023, a unique survey was fielded in Ethiopia to study micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) selling food directly to consumers in two locations in Ethiopia...

This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 analyses a key element of agrifood systems transformation: the change of patterns in food supply and demand. Several...

Recognizing that agrifood value chains (AFVCs) are essential to ensure food security and foster structural change, FAO seeks to reassess the array of policies and interventions needed...

Highlights: High-frequency indicators of food affordability are unavailable in LMICs. Agencies invested in food price data after 2008, but not income or wage data. We...

In 2018, the African Development Bank (the Bank) launched an ambitious Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Action Plan 2018-2025 (MNAP) as a catalyst for achieving the goals of the Bank’s equitable growth...

Highlights: A four-step planning framework for water-energy-food at the basin scale is developed. Detailed river basin simulation coupled with AI-driven optimization is implemented. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...

Highlights: In the study area 46.5% of the households sampled are food insecure. During periods of food scarcity, 68.8% depended on seeds and reduced food consumption...