This publication presents the results of the Resilient Food Systems programme which aims to strengthen policy dialogue and decision-making in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It reviews the transformations...
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This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits...
Highlights: Achieving equality and empowerment in agri-food systems requires relaxing institutionalized constraints across nested scales. If not addressed holistically, positive change in one...
Highlights: The thematic focus of this knowledge review is on the role of fertilisers and soil health in increasing local food production. Promoting a greater use of fertilisers is a usual policy response...
Highlights: Diets in SSA are increasingly unhealthy/environmentally unsustainable. We reviewed evidence for policy actions with the best chance of success in SSA. Recommend: marketing controls, healthy...
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This study evaluates synergies and trade-offs between agricultural export promotion and domestic food security.
Agro-export promotion markedly alters the composition of output...
Highlights: The role of African governments in pursuing policies that promote food security or food sovereignty. The food security situation in Africa has deteriorated over the last decades...
Highlights: Evidence on agricultural input quality is mostly (1) in Sub-Saharan Africa (2) focused on urea fertilizer, hybrid seed, and glyphosate herbicide. Better evidentiary standards...
Against the background of high inflation, climate shocks, and concerns about rising food insecurity, this study documents the state of economic sentiments and expectations of households in five African...
Eliminating both overt and hidden hunger is at the core of the global food and nutrition security agenda. Yet, the collective state of nutrition security at the population level is not known...