Unequal access to economic opportunity for individuals with different innate characteristics, such as ethnicity or parents’ socioeconomic status, is often seen as both morally undesirable and bad for economic...
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This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES). It...
Highlights:
The 4 priority areas of the draft ten-year Action Plan for Fertilizers and Soil Health in Africa are:
1. Strengthening sectoral policies and the policy and regulatory...
Synopsis:
By advancing knowledge on digital climate information and agriculture advisory services (‘agromet services’) in support of West Africa’s farmers, this report has two objectives.
First...
Focus:
Chapter 3.1.1 of the report deals more specifically with the strategy for adopting and integrated approach for the agriculture and the environment.
Key messages of this chapter are as follows:
Addressing natural...
This report reviews the experiences of market linkage programs implemented globally, particularly those focused on poor smallholders, including women, as beneficiaries and farmers who participated in government...
This study used ecological and socioecological simulation modelling to forecast the impacts of climate change in Africa on fish stocks and the fisheries and fishing communities that depend on them, by 2050 and 2100...
Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide, both in human and economic terms. It is responsible for the deaths of more than 3.5 million children each year (more than one-third...