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While Rwanda remains one of the strongest performers on the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) commitment to allocate 10 percent of public expenditure to agriculture, the intensification...

Highlights: Zimbabwe’s economy has seen a strong rebound since the COVID-19 pandemic. While fiscal deficits are low, initial expansionary monetary policy had put...

Several governments and development practitioners view youths as critical to the strategy of enhancing food and nutrition security and sustainable livelihoods in rural Africa. Despite youths being at the centre...

Africa’s food systems are at the forefront of the global climate crisis. Projections indicate that the continent will be severely impacted by climate change as vulnerability is high, with low...

The purpose of this document is to provide agriculture development practitioners and policy makers globally, with guidance, tools and examples of successful integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) into climate...

The 2022 report builds upon and complements the 2021 report. The first report includes topics ranging from food systems to gender and water that are not repeated here...

The five schemes under investigation in this study are a typology of government- or donor-sponsored, integrated risk management mechanisms aimed specifically at de-risking finance and investment in agricultural and agro-industries...

AGRICULTURE CONTRIBUTES HEAVILY TO THE GDP OF MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND IT EMPLOYS MORE THAN HALF OF THE RURAL POPULATION ACROSS THE CONTINENT. Despite the positive effect of agriculture across...

Approximately one-third of the people in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region live in drought-prone areas. Meteorological drought causes substantial socio-economic hardships, decline in public...