Highlights: Editorial to accompany special issue on East African Coastal Current. Focus on fisheries, marine food security and climate change impacts. Summarises results from physical...
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Productivity growth emanating from scientific advances offered by biotechnology and other plant breeding initiatives offers great promise for meeting the growing food demand worldwide. This justifies...
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Majority of respondents had primary school education and do farming as their main income generating activity.
Cereals and oils and fats were the...
Suitability of root, tuber, and banana crops in Central Africa can be favoured under future climates
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Root, tuber and banana (RT&B) systems are prevalent in Central Africa, yet there is limited knowledge of climate change impacts on these systems.
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The expansion of agro-dealers into remote areas can be seen as conducive to more smallholders adopting new technologies and inputs, to include improved seed and fertilizer. However, lower...
WFP and partners have undertaken an analysis of climate risks in 9 countries and recommended programmes to address identified risks.
Climate change is driving global hunger. WFP...
This study assessed the actual changes in deforestation levels and improved livelihoods caused by the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices.
The findings show that farmers' livelihoods have improved...
In Tanzania, diets are dominated by starchy staple crops such as maize, levels of malnutrition are high and largely attributed to lack of dietary diversity. We employed...
Complementary feeding of 6- to 24-month-old infants and young children with adequate, safe and developmentally appropriate food is essential to child health. Inappropriate complementary foods and feeding practices...
Sustainable agricultural technologies have impacted positively on staple crop yields in Asia and some parts of Sub-Sahara Africa. However, the adoption of similar technologies in vegetable subsector...