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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Senegal declared a state of emergency on March 23, 2020, followed by a range of policy measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus: Transport was significantly...

This e-book builds upon the lessons presented in our earlier volume, COVID-19 & Global Food Security (2020). In that book, we documented the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...

The rapid growth of the human population in West Africa makes malnutrition a pressing issue. This paper highlights the predicted nutritional issues in West Africa by 2030. Data were...

Africa’s digital transformation is underway, creating opportunities for the continent to leverage the potential benefits of digitalization for agriculture, particularly smallholder farmers. This report looks at seven African countries...

This compendium is organized in 5 sections: Section 1 discusses the broader meaning of evidence, the power and politics that shape and infuse our understanding of evidence, what counts as...

This note provides guidance for improving nutrition-relevant policy in West Africa, drawn from a comprehensive policy review of nutrition-relevant policies in 16 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape...

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in Africa south of the Sahara, face a “new nutrition reality” (Popkin, Corvalan, and Grummer-Strawn 2020) referred to as the double burden of malnutrition...

Key messages Why was this brief developed? To strengthen understanding of the current direction of nutrition relevant policy in Senegal and its implications. It was developed in...

Unfortunately, a healthy diet has become an unaffordable luxury for close to 1 billion Africans, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 report. Globally...

This report represents the initial effort to structure existing knowledge about agroecology as farming and food system in support of the EC Knowledge Centre on Food and Nutrition Security (https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/global-food-nutrition-security_en)...