The dominance of a few staple crops (maize, rice, and wheat) in most agricultural systems hampers the application of interventions to improve food security and nutrition. Research and development attention...
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Highlights: Cette étude examine le coût respectif de trois types d’alimentation: i) Coût d’une alimentation suffisamment énergétique (Cost of Caloric Adequacy...
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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 CGIAR Initiative on One Health has published its 2022 annual technical report, highlighting research activities and results from its five work packages as well...
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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...
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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...
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The food crisis is growing and is highly exacerbated by insecurity, inflation and the adverse effects of climate change
The 2022-2023 agropastoral season was generally satisfactory, but...
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By advancing knowledge on digital climate information and agriculture advisory services (‘agromet services’) in support of West Africa’s farmers, this report has two objectives.
First...
Malnutrition continues to be a major health burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and is one of the predominant risk factors for ill health and death, with women and children being...
The five countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger (the G5) in the Sahel region of Africa are among the least developed countries in the world. The region...