Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

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...

This book "Young Changemakers: Agroecology Entrepreneurs for Rural Access" by Access Agriculture, a non-profit organisation supporting agroecology and organic farming supported by the European Commission and the FAO, details...

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...

Climate-induced increase in temperature and rainfall variability severely threaten the agricultural sector and food security in the Indian state of Odisha. Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices, such as crop...

Access to agricultural extension and crop advisory services can play a crucial role in ensuring widespread and appropriate use of new and improved agricultural technologies, but the delivery and use...

Farmer Business School (FBS) is an approach developed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Cocoa Foundation...

In Africa, farm advisory services are still dominated by the model of technology transfer. During the last two decades a new approach, based on adult learning methods...

This special issue demonstrates the importance of research processes alongside the evolving and emerging realities of privatisation of advisory services. In addition, useful theorisations relating to the structures, processes and practices...

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...