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In Africa, agriculture is vital for employment and food security. Despite women contributing 40 percent of agricultural labor, they face barriers leading to significant gender gaps...

Mozambique was one of the fastest-growing countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2009 and 2014, with annual growth averaging about 7 percent (INE 2020; World Bank...

Highlights: During the COVID-19 pandemic it became widely understood that strong supply chains have the power to save lives. Many countries face a myriad of challenges...

Highlights: According to the report, Climate change impacts could drive up to 1.6 million additional people into poverty by 2050, further compounding drivers of fragility across most...

Highlights: Mozambique is already vulnerable to extreme weather events and climate change is projected to exacerbate their frequency and intensity. The occurrence of cyclones and flooding has increased in...

Highlights: The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for countries eligible for financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. The...

Nutrition smart agriculture (NSmartAg) is a set of agriculture and agro-processing technologies and practices that contribute to the improvement of nutrition and increase of the farm and agribusiness-level productivity and revenue. One critical step...

This technical report presents the key policy measures for the transition towards sustainable food systems in 17 developing countries. For each country, the analysis is based on the integrative review...

Using a panel of nearly 3000 agricultural households in Tanzania and Mozambique from 2016–2018, this paper investigates the associations of nutritional outcomes and agricultural management practices under drought risk...

The objectives of this note are to provide a brief overview of the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) concept and framework, outline synergies between ASP and disaster risk management (DRM)...