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Highlights: Farmer-herder conflicts threaten Nigeria’s agriculture and livelihoods. Conflicts reduce animal-source foods (ASF) consumption in households. Livestock diversification mitigates impacts of conflicts on ASF...

Highlights: Using household survey data from rural Bangladesh, we examine whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child...

Between December 2022 and January 2023, Afghanistan experienced an extreme cold wave. The central region of Ghor recorded the lowest reading of -33°C. A reported 124 people...

The poultry and pig production subsectors are facing significant financial stress, primarily due to a combination of increasing production costs and declining consumer demand. Among the challenges...

Mechanization has the potential to boost agricultural production and reduce poverty in rural economies, but its impacts remain poorly understood. This paper randomizes the subsidized provision of a pair...

Agricultural and food policies are increasingly asked to do more to improve the dietary quality of populations in lower and middle income countries (LMICs), especially severely malnourished...

Highlights There is an operational agricultural cooperative in every tenth community in Malawi, but they are not well utilized to access markets or services. Almost no farmers...

Highlights The descriptive statistics result revealed that about 43.33% of the households were food secured, whereas the remaining 56.67% were food insecure. Result confirmed that...

Highlights The study investigates factors influencing farm household food and nutrition security in Ethiopia. Demographic, socioeconomic, and institutional variables are found to be associated...

Index insurance has been promoted as an innovative strategy for enhancing long-term resilience to climate-related shocks and providing financial inclusion, particularly to poor women farmers in developing...