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This resource aims at strengthening the capacity of West African pastoral stakeholders to respond to crises by focusing on the creation of real-time data collection tools and systems with extensive geographical coverage...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis on the relationship between nutrition, health, climate change, environment, agriculture and sustainable development, with a special interest in sustainably enhancing Africa’s nutritional...

The rapid growth of the human population in West Africa makes malnutrition a pressing issue. This paper highlights the predicted nutritional issues in West Africa by 2030. Data were...

This project aims to provide improved knowledge and evidence for policy and programme design, management and monitoring & evaluation in order to reach better nutrition outcomes.

West Africa has a high burden of malnutrition and the drivers are often complex, highly context-specific, and cut across individual, social, political and environmental domains. Public...

Four years ago, a group of senior scientists from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), along with representatives from the Bill &...

SAFEVEG aims to pilot and scale innovative approaches to improve the functioning of vegetable value chains through strengthening the relationships among value chain actors, and increase the production...

Transform Nutrition West Africa has identified key priorities for future action in the West Africa region. It has done so in consultation with stakeholders, including...

The past decade has seen a growing global and regional momentum to prioritize nutrition and to develop actionable programs for improved nutrition and more effective food systems. This momentum...

This note provides guidance for improving nutrition-relevant policy in West Africa, drawn from a comprehensive policy review of nutrition-relevant policies in 16 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape...