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Food security in developing regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa is a top priority in global development discourse, as evidenced in Sustainable Development Goal 2. Yet, high climate...

The Sahel region is a place of opportunities, rich in human, natural and cultural resources. However, insecurity, climate change, the rise of violent extremism, the erosion of social cohesion and the lack...

This article explores the fundamental right to food, examining its legal framework, its relationship with other human rights, and the efforts being made globally to improve this right...

The aim of this study is to provide an empirical answer to the question of whether nexus exists between climate change and sustainable agricultural growth in nine (9) countries within the Sahel...

This publication presents the results of the Resilient Food Systems programme which aims to strengthen policy dialogue and decision-making in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It reviews the transformations...

This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits...

Highlights: Achieving equality and empowerment in agri-food systems requires relaxing institutionalized constraints across nested scales. If not addressed holistically, positive change in one...

Highlights: The thematic focus of this knowledge review is on the role of fertilisers and soil health in increasing local food production. Promoting a greater use of fertilisers is a usual policy response...

Highlights: Diets in SSA are increasingly unhealthy/environmentally unsustainable. We reviewed evidence for policy actions with the best chance of success in SSA. Recommend: marketing controls, healthy...

Highlights: This study evaluates synergies and trade-offs between agricultural export promotion and domestic food security. Agro-export promotion markedly alters the composition of output...