The article proposes five pathways to shape and transform Africa's food systems, based on ideas discussed at a session at the Adaptation Futures Conference in 2023. Develop food systems...
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Highlights: Africa’s food systems need to provide sufficient affordable, nutritious food for Africa’s population, whilst generating income and employment to support the continent’s economic and social...
Within the generic scope for the Regional Assessments of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this African assessment focusses on thematic priorities, including the food-energy-water-livelihood nexus; land degradation, including climate-related...
Oil seed crops, especially oil palm, are among the most rapidly expanding agricultural land uses, and their expansion is known to cause significant environmental...
Across large areas of the Sahel region of West Africa, one of the poorest and most environmentally precarious areas of Africa, a decades-long revolution in agroecology has produced remarkable...
Monitoring agricultural land cover is highly relevant for global early warning systems such as ASAP (Anomaly hot Spots of Agricultural Production), because it represents...
Created in 2007, the Central African Forest Observatory (OFAC) is a specialised unit of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) which provides up-to-date and relevant data on the region's...
ANIMALCHANGE will provide scientific guidance on the integration of adaptation and mitigation objectives and design sustainable development pathways for livestock production in Europe, in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin...
Responding to the food security challenge in the Sahel mainly relies on the supply of goods and services from ecosystems of the region. The evolution of the Sahelian population in the wake of climate change questions whether...
Despite growing awareness about its detrimental effects on tropical biodiversity, land conversion to oil palm continues to increase rapidly as a consequence of global demand, profitability...