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Food systems are made up of a cluster of different value chains, including output, lateral, and research and development. This paper explores the rise of SMEs in transforming food systems—from...

IFAD’s Near East, North Africa and Europe (NEN) Division operates across 21 countries spread across three continents. The economies, agricultural ecosystems, climates...

Recent Macroeconomic Developments and Outlook The economy had begun to recover from the COVID shock, but it is now faced with renewed uncertainty. Following economic contraction in 2020, growth...

FISH4ACP is a five-year EUR 40 million programme led by the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) that aims to tackle some of the underlying challenges to sustainable fisheries...

Greening our food systems to deliver healthier and more nutritious food sustainably cannot be done without financially empowered agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises...

This is a preliminary report by external experts tasked by the EU in 2020 to analyse the implications of the compliance obligations under the EU ABS Regulation on compliance measures for users from the Nagoya Protocol...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated rapidly over the past several...

The BioWILL project, which is now in its final year, is seeking to develop a biorefinery that will use processed willow to produce pharmaceutical compounds, renewable energy in the form...

It is widely acknowledged that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a pivotal, direct role in poverty and hunger reduction, industry growth and job creation. Nevertheless, the development...

Almost 22 percent of deaths worldwide can be attributed to unhealthy diets, according to the Global Burden of Disease study, making unhealthy diets the world’s biggest...