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Main messages and recommendations: • Agroecology can contribute to climate resilience (adaptation and mitigation) and is thus compatible with the objectives of climate-smart agriculture. • Agroecology can also...

The future of agriculture will be shaped by the current challenges that the sector is facing. While progress in agriculture productivity has recently been made, effects of climate change...

Climate change impacts globally have increased the urgency for ambitious action on adaptation. This is especially the case in the world’s most vulnerable regions, including Africa. This report covers...

This year marks 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which was broadened under the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural...

Highlights: This AU-EU Innovation Agenda proposes specific objectives with short-, medium- to long-term actions for all four HLPD priority areas agreed by the Ministers in July 2020...

This publication provides an update on the European Commission’s Food 2030 initiative and is meant to guide future research and innovation policy reflections related to Horizon Europe, the farm-to-fork strategy...

Climate change and extreme weather events are heightening levels of acute food insecurity and food crises around the world. As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and deals...

Highlights: The Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Implementation Plan (CSAIP) 2022-2032 is a framework for African countries, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and other development stakeholders as...

In the face of climate extremes and economic shocks, resilience-oriented innovations is essential to sustain and increase productivity and to ensure food security in small-scale agrifood systems. With investments in agricultural research...

The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) is being held in November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Having a climate summit hosted in an African country makes it timely...