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The dominance of a few staple crops (maize, rice, and wheat) in most agricultural systems hampers the application of interventions to improve food security and nutrition. Research and development attention...

In this paper we present analysis on the recent historical trend in agriculture in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region, along with analysis of recent historical trends in temperature and precipitation...

Highlights: Dairy programs often focus on increased supply of quality dairy products. Yet dairy consumption responses to policy interventions are not well understood...

Rural people in Southern Africa are increasingly suffering both directly and indirectly from global fragility and crises. Effective ways to build resilience to these crises and respond...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched an initiative to assess the existing impediments for scaling innovation and technology in food and agriculture (AgTech) and to identify options to improve...

The CGIAR Initiative on One Health has published its 2022 annual technical report, highlighting research activities and results from its five work packages as well...

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...

This report addresses key policy issues around the access and use of genetic resources and their up-scaling for direct use and commercialization. It analyzes the current policy environment...

East Africa recorded strong economic recovery in 2021, but the pre-COVID-19 growth levels are yet to be achievedin most of the countries. The recovery momentum is now hampered...

This project aims to provide improved knowledge and evidence for policy and programme design, management and monitoring & evaluation in order to reach better nutrition outcomes.