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Highlights: The Draft Nairobi Declaration on Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit outlines commitments to enhance agricultural productivity, soil health, and sustainability across Africa. Key...

The future of agriculture will be shaped by the current challenges that the sector is facing. While progress in agriculture productivity has recently been made, effects of climate change...

Main messages and recommendations: • Agroecology can contribute to climate resilience (adaptation and mitigation) and is thus compatible with the objectives of climate-smart agriculture. • Agroecology can also...

Despite the fact that Africa is well-positioned to become the world’s breadbasket, many African countries are plagued by food shortages. The final brief in the Imagine Africa series focuses...

The Common African Agro-Parks Programme (CAAPs) is aimed at boosting regional trade for agricultural commodities by increasing locally processing of key agricultural products. The CAAPs will help...

Agricultural value chains worldwide provide essential support to livelihoods, ecosystem services, and the growing bioeconomy. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic slowed down or reversed...

Highlights: COUNTRIES REQUIRING EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE FOR FOOD FAO assesses that globally 45 countries, including 33 in Africa, nine in Asia, two in Latin America and...

Highlights Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are a participatory rural development approach that help farmers redesign their farming systems. We investigate farmers' implementation...

Maize is an important staple food that has cultural, economic, environmental, and nutritional impacts in the world. In addition to being a cornerstone crop for human nutrition, maize is in high demand...

Findings: The ongoing Ukraine-Russia crisis has resulted in the disruption of global fertilizer markets and the rise of fertilizer prices to unprecedented levels, not seen in the last decade. The...