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We examine whether current assumptions concerning the declining resilience of family farming and the growing influence of capitalist forms of agricultural production are being confirmed in the cocoa...

Unfortunately, a healthy diet has become an unaffordable luxury for close to 1 billion Africans, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 report. Globally...

Identifying quality criteria of RTB crops and products. Guidance on bâton de manioc in Cameroon.

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...

In Africa, cocoa yields are low, partly due to soil fertility constraints and poor management. While peoples’ knowledge, aspirations, and abilities are key factors...

Although liberalization of the cocoa sector has increased internal competition within the marketing chain it has also led to the emergence of informal market actors within...

The project’s overarching goal is to strengthen rural livelihoods for greater income, improve food security and nutrition and integrate approaches to mitigate the impact of climate change.

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a provider of early warning and analysis on acute food insecurity. Created in 1985 by the US Agency for International Development...

This report presents selected achievements and lessons from the growing portfolio of fisheries and aquaculture investments supported by IFAD.The introduction summarizes key issues and gives an overview of IFAD-supported actions...

From the appointment of the Secretariat in September 2014 up to the closing in June 2019, PARM’s participatory agricultural risk management (ARM) engagement process has been successfully implemented in 8...