Search Knowledge for policy

This issue presents and analyses experiences from the following IFAD-funded project: Nigeria and Benin: Youth Employment in Agri-business and Sustainable Agriculture. Africa is experiencing rapid social and economic...

Using data from 1995-2015, an empirical study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), led by Vijesh Krishna, CIMMYT...

This paper informs on how locally developed social innovations can strengthen enabling environments for soil restoration. It draws on experiences of TMG’s collaborative work with partners...

Researchers worldwide are expected to design and develop agroecological systems to address major challenges such as increasing biotic pressure and climate change. But to design effective innovations...

As in many other African countries, the pathways for future agriculture and food systems in Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya and Madagascar can still be modelled to a certain extent. Amongst...

The objective is to strengthen family farming in its capacity to contribute to food and nutritional security and its responses to sustainable development, in particular by identifying and testing the conditions for an agro-ecological transition...

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) provides trusted open-source data on agricultural research systems across the developing world. Led by the International Food Policy Research...

The JOLISAA project aims to increase understanding of agricultural innovation systems focusing on smallholders’ livelihoods and the articulation of local/traditional and global knowledge. Lessons learnt about past and ongoing...