Food system transformation is intrinsically tied to effective land and water resource management, especially in the regions facing competition among various land uses. The AhafoAno Southwest District in Ghana exemplifies this complexity, with agriculture, mining, and agroforestry practices competing against one another for arable land, impacting the local food system and contributing to water resource degradation.

Agriculture remains the primary livelihood in Ghana, marked by a growing emphasis on cocoa production nationwide. Existing research highlights the importance of supplementing rainfed cocoa production with irrigation. Simultaneously, mining has emerged as a key driver of the country's economic growth. However, there is an urgent need to assess the measurable impacts of cocoa production with supplemental irrigation and mining on water resources sustainability and quality.

Interdisciplinary research aimed at identifying effective strategies to enhance farmers' profits, improve the yield of nutritious crops, conserve natural resources, and sustain or enhance ecological services, all while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural landscapes, is currently underway in Northern Bangladesh. To achieve real-world impact, research aims at generating evidence-based and actionable recommendations that can be being put into practice through both public and private auriculate extension networks, along with support for policy design and reform.

This paper presents a temperature-based early warning alert system for fish farmers in Zambia. The decision support tool indicating the conditions under which air temperatures may result in a normal, high risk or emergency scenario, combined with the monitoring and management mitigations recommended under each scenario. During model development, five models were compared, including linear regression, stochastic regression, deep learning, random forest, and decision tree.

Son La province has recently put in place policies and programs to support expansion of livestock production, however the province still faces low livestock productivity due to low quality and availability of forages and feedstuff. One of the provincial government’s priorities is to increase productivity of cattle and pigs through improved animal nutrition practices such as increased cultivation of improved forages and better feed management and utilization.

The Shamba Showdown project emerges in response to a critical, yet under-addressed issue in Kenya's agriculture sector: the aging farmer population and the disinterest of the youth in farming. Despite the fact that 85% of Kenya's food supply is domestically grown, primarily by smallholder farmers, there is a looming food crisis driven by the aging demographic of these farmers. The median age of Kenyan farmers is now over 60, and the younger generation, educated in urban areas, shows little inclination to return to rural farming.

Baseline survey findings from a randomized control trial that examines the effects of a sustainable land management training delivered to couples or women only in the context of rural Ethiopia where all participants are beneficiaries of a targeted social safety net program. The baseline survey was conducted in June 2023 and results were presented to implementation partners in October 2023.

Employing Citizens’ Juries (CJs) for Identifying Pathways to More Sustainable Food Systems is one of the proposed research endeavors of work package 3 (WP3) within the One-CGIAR initiative “Mitigate+: Low-Emission Food Systems” (2022-2024).

Open-pollinated varieties (OPVs), such as beans, sorghum, and groundnuts, are important for increased income, job creation, food security, and nutrition of both urban and rural households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the main constraint is underdeveloped seed systems, which contribute substantially to dwindling productivity among small-scale farmers due to limited access to reliable and quality planting materials.