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The Mid-Year Update of the Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that 238 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 48...

The meeting of the regional mechanism for the Prevention and Management of Food Crises (PREGEC) in the Sahel and West Africa was held on June 15 and 16, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria. That was...

Highlights: The Sahel and West Africa region is facing a serious food and nutrition security crisis with high rates of acute malnutrition, combined with high rates of malnourishment and...

In this article, I examine whether the contemporary regional intellectual property (IP) agreements negotiated by West African countries are more suitable than multilateral agreements to advance...

The summary offers lessons on School Health and Nutrition and Home Grown Schoool Feeding feeding into ongoing and future programmes. While the focus is West and Central Africa, the...

Highlights: This Sahel and West Africa Regional Focus covers sixteen countries – Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso...

Highlights: The spillovers from the war on Ukraine weighed on the most vulnerable. Data from the 2020 household survey show that poor households spend 65 percent of their income on...

Human capital, which encompasses knowledge, skills, health, and nutrition, is a significant determinant of long-term economic growth and social advancement. Human capital drives economic growth...

Highlight: West African Heads of State and ministers affirmed their commitment to accelerate investments and reforms to make fertilizers more accessible and affordable during the high-level roundtable...

Highlights: The 4 priority areas of the draft ten-year Action Plan for Fertilizers and Soil Health in Africa are: 1. Strengthening sectoral policies and the policy and regulatory...