Climate Change and Food Systems: Transforming Food Systems for Adaptation, Mitigation, and Resilience Many promising innovations and policy approaches show potential to address climate change...

How can we design conservation and development projects that produce lasting changes? How can we increase their effectiveness and legitimacy? The classical economic incentives...

Highlights Landscape restoration as a nature-based solution can improve rural livelihoods by increasing food and water security, biodiversity, and soil quality and developing sustainable value chains...

This book documents the productivity trends in Sub-Saharan Africa in three different dimensions, assessing productivity at the aggregate level, the sectoral level, and the establishment level. It characterizes the evolution...

KEY MESSAGES Centering food systems transformation within climate change action is critical to cutting emissions and delivering on the target to limit global warming to 1.5°C...

Input subsidy programs, through which farmers receive fertilizer (and in some cases seed) at below-market prices, were popular in many African countries in the post-independence...

Ghana has a long history of intervening in food markets to balance consumers’ expectations of low and stable food prices, farmers’ demands for high farmgate prices, and traders’...

Key messages Current governmental support for agriculture provides incentives for unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, with agriculture and land-use change responsible for 22 percent of global...

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...

The risks of carbon leakage associated with climate policies in the agricultural sector remains under-researched. Studies to date suggest that carbon pricing policies implemented by a single country, or small...