Motivation Many developing countries have identified a set of strategic objectives and a longlist of investment areas to promote agricultural production and ensure food security. However, most...

In agriculture, digitalisation could be a game changer in boosting productivity, profitability and resilience to climate change. An inclusive, digitally-enabled agricultural transformation could help achieve meaningful...

Ethiopia is first largest livestock population in Africa and tenth largest globally.Contributes approx. 12% to total GDP and over 45% to agricultural GDP.Mixed crop-livestock production is the dominant...

Irrigation plays a significant role in achieving food and nutrition security in dry regions. However, detailed ex-ante appraisals of irrigation development investments are required to efficiently...

For millions of poor people in East and Southern Africa, bamboo has huge potential to alleviate poverty, protect the environment and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Africa...

From the appointment of the Secretariat in September 2014 up to the closing in June 2019, PARM’s participatory agricultural risk management (ARM) engagement process has been successfully implemented in 8...

Over the past two years, the Resilient Food Systems (RFS) programme, one of the three Integrated Approach Pilots funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has...

In 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Ethiopia adopted the Rural Job Opportunity Creation Strategy (RJOCS) to address a lack of job opportunities in rural areas and its...

The September 2019 update of the Global Report on Food Crises provides estimates of the peak number of people in urgent need of assistance for food, nutrition and livelihood support in 2019...

Cropping is responsible for substantial emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) worldwide through the use of fertilizers and through expansion of agricultural land and associated carbon losses. Especially in sub‐Saharan...