Malawi experienced modest growth from 2009 to 2019, with average annual GDP growth of 4.7 percent. The global COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant slowdown in 2020 and 2021...
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This synthesis presents the results of a 10-year journey that IDRC and ACIAR have taken together in funding agricultural research to inform policy and help improve food and...
Agricultural development in Malawi faces an important conundrum. While agriculture is the backbone of the economy, many smallholders will not be able to farm their way out...
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa do not have much choice of quality seed of vegetable cultivars adapted to local growing conditions and consumer demand. Only a handful...
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Understanding links between value chains, diets, and nutrition is complex, and little rigorous evidence currently exists on these links.
Diagnostics link nutrition problems...
This evaluation covers the period 2014-2020 and provides an independent assessment of the performance of EU support to food and nutrition security, sustainable agriculture and fisheries at country, regional and global level...
The roots and tubers industry in sub-Saharan Africa has been growing steadily in recent years. Nevertheless, a series of challenges, including lack of access to finance and climate change...
Agricultural projects typically aim to promote the uptake of project components amongst targeted farm populations to improve their on-farm productivity within a “theory of change” that leads...
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)...
This background paper examines the linkages and interactions between women’s empowerment, food systems, and nutrition. It examines:
How women’s empowerment and gender equality relate to...