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.
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.
Sound policies require access to up-to-date and reliable S&T investment data provided
by ASTI.
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
Using big data approaches to solve agricultural development problems faster, better and at a greater scale than before.
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.
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.
Fundamental changes are occurring today in the way farmers, plant breeders, molecular biologists, and genebank managers use genetic resources.
HarvestChoice began in 2006, when the tides were rapidly turning on the data science. Detailed figures on agriculture, human welfare, and the environment were scarce for Africa South of the Sahara (SSA).
The benefits of irrigation go beyond impacts on yields, with large potential benefits for nutrition security, health, and women’s empowerment.
The International Dietary Data Expansion Project (INDDEX), is a collaborative effort between the Gerald J. and Dorothy R.
Land-based resources generate most of the income and subsistence goods for the poor in developing countries.
As a part of the “Enabling crop analytics at scale” program, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by Te
Picture-Based Insurance is a new, innovative way of delivering affordable, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand crop insurance.
The project provides an integrated irrigation-energy planning framework to identify groundwater irrigation development potentials in Ethiopia under three energy solutions: grid-connected electricity, off-grid solar PV, and diesel.