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Highlights: Africa’s food systems need to provide sufficient affordable, nutritious food for Africa’s population, whilst generating income and employment to support the continent’s economic and social...

Transboundary conservation areas (TBCAs) are cross-border, cooperatively managed conservation areas, consisting of formally protected areas (PAs) and other multiple-use areas. They are...

Individual Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices are not new to the West and Central Africa (WCA) region, though the combination of the three main components of CA is innovative...

Highlight on the global dimension of the research programme (Cluster 6) The underlying paradigm of Cluster 6 is the need for a transformative change of the EU economy and society to reduce environmental degradation...

Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN's five regional commissions, ECA's mandate is to promote the economic and social development...

The Regional Technical Platform on Green Agriculture aims to: Share successful experiences and facilitate an interregional exchange of good practices; Build on existing regional-level technical...

International trade contributes significantly to fueling economic growth and development. However, evidence increasingly associates trade with negative impacts on biodiversity and people. In a global economy, which...

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...

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)...

Highlights The study reviews ex-post impact assessment studies on improved rice varieties. Articles were published between 2016 and 2021. Stress-tolerant varieties significantly...