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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...

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...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) belong to all of us. But amid resurgent conflict, climate havoc, and social and health crises, we risk losing sight of them...

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...

CONTEXT Although rice production has increased significantly in the last decade in West Africa, the region is far from being rice self-sufficient. Inland valleys (IVs) with...

Highlights Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are a participatory rural development approach that help farmers redesign their farming systems. We investigate farmers' implementation...