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The Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP), led by FAO and IFAD, will direct $252 million in project financing and $2.2 billion in co-financing to 32 countries. The FSIP...

Highlight: West African Heads of State and ministers affirmed their commitment to accelerate investments and reforms to make fertilizers more accessible and affordable during the high-level roundtable...

LoCAL (The LoCAL Climate Adaptive Living Facility) has shown that performance-based grants for climate resilience can build local government capacities to handle climate...

This document analyses the evolution of the impact of COVID-19 in the ECOWAS zone. It helps provide an understanding of the overall socio-economic impact of the pandemic and its effects on the life of households, and identifies...

Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack...

The Hand-in-Hand Initiative aims at facilitating partnerships and investments to accelerate the transformation of agrifood systems in the region.

The five schemes under investigation in this study are a typology of government- or donor-sponsored, integrated risk management mechanisms aimed specifically at de-risking finance and investment in agricultural and agro-industries...

Governments and international development partners investing over $40 USD billion a year in school meals have shown interest in linking these programs with agriculture sector...

Produced by the Monitoring and Analysing of Food and Agriculture Policies Programme (MAFAP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this report takes stock of over a decade of data...

In 2020, the global coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed new challenges to the initiatives and institutions supporting the farming communities and ecosystems that underpin Africa’s food systems. This year’s...