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Highlights: We analyse crop diversity dynamics in south-eastern Senegal. We focus on three traditional crops: sorghum, fonio, and Bambara groundnut. Despite their drought-tolerance...

This country brief supports GCAN's goal of integrating gender, climate resilience, and nutrition considerations into policies, interventions, and research by providing policymakers, program officers, and researchers with an analysis...

This book examines Africa’s current food system and future challenges for food security over the next 25 years, amidst a rapidly growing population, climate change...

Goats are an important source of income, nutrition and resilience in Senegal. This study assesses opportunities to strengthen women’s agency, increase resilience to climate change, and improve nutrition...

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...

Climate change and its impacts on natural and human systems are increasingly evident globally. Africa is highly vulnerable and is experiencing the burden of climate change impacts of climate...

For the first time ever, the European Union and the African Union held a Space Dialogue on cooperation in space on 24-26 October 2023 in Dakar, Senegal. This Space Dialogue was...

Highlights: This Sahel and West Africa Regional Focus covers sixteen countries – Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso...

CONTEXT: Climate change and variability have been identified as major threats to key sectors such as agriculture that drive economic growth and sustainable development in developing countries...

The FAO-CARE-CGIAR joint technical working paper will contribute to developing an FAO position and improved understanding of the links between, and risks of, climate change and various kinds...