This working paper examines the pivotal role of High Value Crop Products (HVCPs) in modern agricultural research and development, emphasizing their potential to significantly enhance rural prosperity and address global challenges such as poverty and food security.
The report aims to provide an overview of the feasibility and pre-implementation phase activities being undertaken by AICCRA under The Aggregator Growth Development & Investment Program in Ghana to co-design a comprehensive scalable climate-smart bundled finance solution targeting the Tomato Value Chain.
The Power Walk is a group role-playing exercise designed to prompt reflection on power dynamics, privilege, and social inequalities, adapted for the water sector context. The activity simulates a society where individuals have an equal starting point but depending on their social identities end up in different positions.
The report documents the first steps taken to aims to design a “rapid†systemic approach that can be used to better understand the entry points for systems transformation, and innovation bundling. The tool was tested in three countries including Bangladesh, Nepal and Ethiopia. The report documents the steps taken in the case of Ethiopia.
The livestock sector plays a major role in the Kenyan food system, contributing about 12 percent of the country’s overall GDP and 40 percent of agricultural GDP, and employing about half of the agricultural labor force (Kenya Markets Trust 2019a). The livestock sector also contributes 22 percent of food system GDP.
Food systems are a foundation of human and planetary well-being and central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet they also contribute to ill health, inequity, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions. These challenges demand urgent food systems transformation. Such a transformation requires understanding the status of food systems across their diverse functions.
One of the options for the development of family farming is to promote access to different markets (national or international).
One of the options for the development of family farming is to promote access to different markets (national or international).
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) launched a pilot radio program to assess the potential of disseminating sheep fattening technologies to smallholder farmers using radio as a communication medium. This mid-term review aims to provide initial insight about the progress made six months after the program rollout.
This country brief is an output of the Agroecology Initiative's Work Package 5, dedicated to understanding and subsequently influencing behavior change and actor agency to achieve its goals. It leverages insights from an inventory of agroecology-related initiatives and key informant interviews to extract lessons from previous initiatives in Tunisia.
This product refers to the design of a diploma course, developed together with a national private university, the diploma course seeks to update professionals in the agri-food sector, in the face of digital technologies with a focus on climate change, gender and transformation of agro-food systems.