The World Wide Fund for Nature defines a food system as “the complete set of people, institutions, activities, processes, and infrastructure involved in producing and consuming food for a given...
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Agriculture plays an important role in African economies, despite low productivity compared to other continents and lagging participation in global value chains. There is also an unmet...
There are a wide range of biotechnologies available and many of them have been, and are currently being, used in many situations and sectors worldwide to solve the myriad...
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FAO assesses that globally 46 countries/territories, including 33 in Africa, ten in Asia, two in Latin America and the Caribbean and one in Europe, are in need of...
As Africa is facing multiple challenges related to food security, frameworks integrating production and availability are urgent for policymaking. Attention should be given not only...
Africa is a major hotspot of food insecurity with climate change and population growth as major drivers. Irrigation expansion can sustainably increase agricultural productivity and adapt crops...
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Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are a participatory rural development approach that help farmers redesign their farming systems.
We investigate farmers' implementation...
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The gap between wheat consumption and production in Africa is increasing over time.
Wheat yield gaps are large across most wheat producing regions...
Rice production and research have met unprecedented challenges in recent years. Yield and total production have plateaued for many years in some major producing rice-producing...
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...