A growing body of literature discusses food insecurity in rural and urban contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Peri-urban food insecurity and coping strategies remain an understudied topic...
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A study on post-harvest losses was conducted in Amhara, Oromiya and the Southern nation nationality and peoples regions of Ethiopia to pilot a methodology to produce national statistics of off-farm losses...
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More than 64% of the household consumed a high dietary diversity of at least 6 food groups.
The need to inspire and initiate rural households not to waste...
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The global success and expansion of a small pool of major crops, including rice, wheat and maize, risks homogenising global agriculture. Focusing on...
The challenges to agroecological transitions are not the same for all farmers and implementation of agroecological practices in different locations could yield different results. With this consideration, this study was...
Background: Climate change has perverse efects on the natural resource base and agricultural productivity, negatively afecting the well-being of households and communities. There are various attempts...
Agricultural and food policies are increasingly asked to do more to improve the dietary quality of populations in lower and middle income countries (LMICs), especially severely malnourished...
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The study investigates factors influencing farm household food and nutrition security in Ethiopia.
Demographic, socioeconomic, and institutional variables are found to be associated...
Improving the performance of low-productivity smallholder farmers is a pathway with great potential for reducing poverty and enhancing food security and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. Using experimental data from Ethiopia...
The FAO-IFPRI study, of which this policy brief is a summary, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal...