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Agricultural expansion to meet humanity’s growing needs for food and materials is a leading driver of land-use change, exacerbating climate change and biodiversity loss. Seaweed biomass farmed...

Son La is the largest mountainous province located in the northern highlands of Vietnam with a total area of 1.4 million ha and a total population of 1,252,700 (88 people/ km2)...

Li-chăn is a project under the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (Livestock CRP) that aims to provide research-based solutions to transition smallholder farmers to sustainable and resilient livelihoods and to more...

Agri-environmental projects have been portrayed as tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation and to overcome processes of deforestation, soil erosion, issues of water availability, and biodiversity loss...

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT are conjointly implementing the project ‘Towards climate-resilient dairy production in Southern Zambia’ in partnership...

This study investigates the financial cost of increasing the diversity of cereal grains in livestock feed rations. We first develop a nonlinear mathematical programming model that determines the least-cost...

LMP is a five-year sector investment plan and includes both investment analysis and a budget - both a financial and a human resource budget- that guide the development of a country’s sustainable...

This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural...

The 2022 report builds upon and complements the 2021 report. The first report includes topics ranging from food systems to gender and water that are not repeated here...

The University of Hohenheim taps into a new source of protein: an on-farm biorefinery produces protein-based feed for pigs and poultry, other high-quality raw materials, and energy.