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Highlights: This synthesis presents the results of a 10-year journey that IDRC and ACIAR have taken together in funding agricultural research to inform policy and help improve food and...

This paper looks for empirical support to the existence of a positive nexus between economic and environmental performance in farming as implied by the Sustainable Intensification hypothesis. As the ecological scale at which this nexus...

Executive Summary: Intervention Context: WFP’s activities in Burkina Faso and Niger focus on fragile agrarian communities in the Sahel, where cyclical floods and droughts combine with...

Food systems must be transformed if we are to feed the world without destroying the planet. Agroecological principles are central to creating and sustaining that change...

Fortification generally utilises large-scale production systems which can exclude the most vulnerable who buy from small-scale mills. Pakistan offers an example of how engaging...

Addressing human and social values is a core element of agroecology, including questions of equity and social justice in food systems, supporting autonomy and well-being of food producers, fostering...

This compendium is organized in 5 sections: Section 1 discusses the broader meaning of evidence , the power and politics that shape and infuse our understanding of evidence, what counts...

A collective instrument to inform debates on contemporary social and environmental challenges Sustainable consumption, responsible investment, CSR, social innovation… Over the last 30 years, citizens...

This staff working document gives an overview of key existing European initiatives related to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It summarises for each of the seventeen Sustainable...