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Zimbabwe’s impressive recovery since the 2019-20 COVID-19 recession has been slowed by the 2024 El-Niño-related drought. The fiscal deficit is projected to have fallen to below 3 percent...

Nitrous oxide, considered to be a super pollutant, is the third most important greenhouse gas and the most significant ozone-layer depleting substance emitted today. Its human-induced...

This study by Stanford University used a panel data approach to estimate the impact of climate change on various outcomes, including agriculture, mortality, economic output, and conflict. The authors...

Summary Introduction: Since 2020, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have faced numerous disruptions in agricultural activities due to various crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic...

Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within...

The agriculture sector receives substantial fiscal subsidies in various forms, including through programs that are linked to production and others that are decoupled. As the sector has reached...

Highlights: CSA is positively associated with land productivity. CSA is also positively associated with food security. The bundled use of CSA practices offers greater land productivity...

Climate change, poverty, and low environmental education have contributed to increasing vulnerability of poor farmers in Mali. This study was done to determine the impact of low-cost adaptation...

Many African governments have been implementing inputs subsidy programmes (ISP) in order to turn around the low-input low-yield agricultural systems dominated by resource- constrained...

Tillage is one of the agricultural management practices that significantly impacts agroecosystems, crop production, and the environment. Conventional tillage (CT) practices alter the soil environment and induce organic...