The regional integration landscape has been changing in Africa significantly over the past five years.

Africa RISING offers demand-driven, locally tailored, and resource-saving agricultural innovations for sustainable intensification to improve household welfare and at the same time enhance sustainability.

Insights from Agent-Based Modeling in the Indus, Mekong and Niger basins 

Focusing on strengthening the capacity of targeted ASEAN Member States (AMS) to develop policies and programs addressing food security and agricultural development and enhancing cooperation on R&D, food safety, and quality standards.

Provide locally relevant solutions to agriculture-related development challenges in Africa.

Animal-source foods—such as meat, poultry, fish, and dairy—are important components of diverse diets and provide high-quality proteins and other essential nutrients that promote optimal growth and development.

Public private partnerships (PPPs) have the potential to bring much-needed financial, technical, and managerial resources to the irrigation sector in Africa south of the Sahara and are explicitly identified in the food security and irrigation stra

Nearly 93% of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is currently rainfed and a large share of the rural population is subject to the vagaries of climate to grow crops and support livestock production.

The Ceres2020 partnership works to provide the donor community with a menu of agricultural and food policy options for directing their investments, backed by the best available evidence and economic models

Trade restrictions in periods of uncertainty have contributed to food price crises, so this project tracks policies restricting food exports to highlight their impacts on prices, food security, and vulnerable people.

Irrigation, mechanization or fertilizer?—tradeoffs and food security implications

What is the challenge?

The primary objective of the project is to simulate and analyze the impacts of lifting quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice imports on the Philippine agriculture sector and to the economy.

Water is a shared resource, which requires coordination between resource users, but in many cases the necessary collective action to manage water does not emerge.

Collecting data on agricultural and food trade on all trade corridors in the West African region using the West African Association for Cross-Border Trade in Agro-forestry-pastoral and Fisheries Products (WACTAF).

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) project aims to benefit farmers of Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania by improving effective use of scarce water supplies through

International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) is a network of linked economic, water, and crop models.

This project studied the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on eight food value chains in three countries: okra, tomatoes, and dairy in Burkina Faso; maize and dairy in Uganda; and rice, fish, and shrimp in Bangladesh.

The benefits of irrigation go beyond impacts on yields, with large potential benefits for nutrition security, health, and women’s empowerment.

Land-based resources generate most of the income and subsistence goods for the poor in developing countries.

There is broad consensus in the economic literature as well as within Africa on the fact that data on trade across the continent are seriously lacking.