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Produced by the Monitoring and Analysing of Food and Agriculture Policies Programme (MAFAP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this report takes stock of over a decade of data...

For the second consecutive year, the region must prepare for a major food and nutrition crisis in 2021. The March update indicates that 27.1 million people might need emergency...

This study presents qualitative findings from an assessment conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute and Cultural Practice, LLC of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s...

This summary report is based on a cross-cutting analysis of the present status of the cottonseed systems in nine African countries: three in West Africa (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal), two...

This chapter focuses on protected cultivation (PC), defined as the protection of crops against adverse climatic and biological factors using physical means. As natural resources become scarcer...

Rapid population growth and urbanization in West Africa have led to profound changes in the lifestyles and diets of urban dwellers. These changes are marked by greater preference...

The 36th annual meeting was held virtually in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. It took stock of the 2020-21 agro-pastoral campaign, the food and nutrition situation and the responses to the 2020...

Sound the alarm for political and financial action to address an unprecedented food and nutrition situation in the Sahel and West Africa that has been strongly exacerbated by the combined effects of security...

The support of agricultural value chains has become an important approach in German and international development cooperation, not only to promote the economic development of a country but also to contribute...

Covid-19 risks overshadowing and compounding the already severe food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel and West Africa. Several tens of millions of people are threatened. The region’s stability...