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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...

Agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is dominated by subsistence farming. Households grow food mainly for their own consumption and sell only when they have...

Highlights: Chapter 3.2 deals with increasing agriculture productivity and improving water management to enhance resilience. Chapter 4.3 deals with the implications for poverty, inequality and social...

Despite its rich endowment in natural and human resources, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has struggled to reach its full economic potential, partly due...

Highlights: The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for countries eligible for financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. The...

Nutrition Smart Agriculture: When Good Nutrition is Good Business. Nutrition smart agriculture (NSmartAg) is a set of agriculture and agro-processing technologies and practices that contribute to the improvement of nutrition...

Food insecurity in the African context is a critical issue; yet total food losses are estimated at 15.9% and 17.2% in quantity and in caloric value, respectively (FAO, 2019)...

This technical report presents the key policy measures for the transition towards sustainable food systems in 17 developing countries. For each country, the analysis is based on the integrative review...

This paper explores how climate change, violent conflict, the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis combine to drive rapidly increasing levels of food insecurity. These drivers...

The ambition of this synthesis report is to provide the comprehensive list of priority actions for food systems transformation in Democratic Republic of the Congo.