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Highlights : Investigates media framing of consumer sustainability before and during COVID-19. Consumer responsibility is positively related to shopping behavior and food waste. Sustainability consciousness is positively...

Agripreneurship as one of the means to ensure food security in Tanzania has received scant attention. This study bridges the knowledge gap by showing the state of the art on agripreneurship and food...

Cashew is a cash crop primarily grown by smallholder farmers in Tanzania and is a major source of rural employment and income in Coastal areas. Women dominate small-scale cashew processing...

We review the literature on the distribution of farm sizes in sub-Saharan Africa, trends over time, drivers of change in farm structure, and effects on agricultural transformation and present new...

Micronutrient deficiencies are widespread in many low- and middle-income countries, but tend to be most severe in children and in pregnant women, who have higher micronutrient requirements...

AfricaFertilizer is an initiative under the International Fertilizer Development Center that seeks to provide clear, relevant, and opportune data and market analysis on fertilizers in sub-Saharan Africa.

This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project...

CGIAR scientists have published a new research paper in Global Food Security (September 2023) that addresses women’s empowerment in agriculture, innovations in its measurement, and emerging...

We aimed to examine the association between women's empowerment and childhood nutritional status while accounting for the mediating role of household headship structure. Cross-country, cross-sectional quantitative...

Motivation Gender mainstreaming is often promoted internationally as the vehicle of choice to achieve gender equality. Concepts of mainstreaming are commonly seen in climate-smart agriculture (CSA), where...