Highlights The report includes a chapter on agriculture and food systems. The key messages of this chapter: Food security in Africa needs urgent and serious attention from policymakers. Rates...

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...

Key messages The warming trend for 1991–2020 was higher than for the 1961–1990 period in all African subregions and significantly higher than the trend for 1931–1960. Annual average temperatures in...

The growing impact of climate change on African agriculture and food systems in the last two decades has created a major threat to food production and food security on the continent...

While the global economy continues its rapid recovery from the global recession of 2020, inequities in vaccine supply and access to external finance are leading to a two-track recovery...

It has been 28 years since the World Meteorological Organization issued the first state of the climate report in 1993. The report was initiated due to the concerns raised...

The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) is the flagship programme in IFAD’s portfolio of activities designed to channel climate and environmental finance to small-scale farmers. It allows IFAD...

Climate change has severe negative impacts on livelihoods and food systems worldwide. To address this to its full extent, there is an urgent need for transformational change of our...

Economic growth and shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa will be increasingly undermined if vulnerabilities to climate change are not addressed. Climate impacts, which...

The first core objective of Regreening Africa is to scale-up evergreen agriculture, using locally appropriate techniques including Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration, tree planting and other forms...