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Key messages: Africa remains the most food insecure region globally, despite having 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated land. As the continent struggles to cope with conflict...

The relevance of the worldwide commitment to end hunger as stated in Sustainable Development Goal 2.1 makes it crucial to understand the trend of undernourishment and the accompanying determinants that are still...

While agriculture is the life-wire for many African economies, the sector has been exposed to multiple shocks, leading to food insecurity concerns. COVID-19′s seemingly perennial nature...

The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) analyzes continental and regional trends in African agricultural trade flows and policies, with a special focus on the East African Community...

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...

Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack...

Summary and highlights The fifth edition of the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) highlights the relationships between African agricultural trade and food and nutrition security. In particular...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has emerged as an exogenous shock to global food supply chains, which foreshadows worrying impacts on Africa’s food security...

Highlights This study analyzes the impact of malnutrition on infant mortality and life expectancy in a sample of 36 African countries during the 2003–2018 period. The economic implications of...

This study was conducted to develop a better understanding of the scope, challenges, and opportunities for integrating smallholder farmers’ organizations (SFOs) in IFAD-financed projects in the East and Southern Africa (ESA)...