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This edited volume brings together effective measurement, methodologies, and determinants of food loss & waste (FLW), and more.

Although women’s empowerment and gender equality are often linked with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes, recent systematic reviews find inconclusive evidence. This paper...

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...

Climate models for the project area predicted an increase in annual average temperatures. Rainfall was expected to be less reliable with a longer and hotter dry season from June...

The mNutrition initiative is a five-year global programme supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), organised and supported by Groupe Spéciale Mobile Association (GSMA), and implemented...

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...

Sorghum, finger millet and pearl millet are more resilient and better adapted to the challenges of climate change, low soil fertility and limited moisture levels of the arid...

WFP estimates that up to 2.1 million people may need food assistance as a result of the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in Tanzania.

This paper reviews the status and policy contexts of informal milk markets in Kenya, Tanzania and Assam (India) to better understand the opportunities for a policy innovation based on training and certification...

A new report, released today by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has revealed that close to 44.8 million people in urban and rural areas across 13...