ARENA studies the linkages between animal source foods and stunting, on measuring and improving the affordability of healthy foods and healthy diets, on farming systems and nutrition, and the impacts of structural transformation on nutrition
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.
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.
Achieving agricultural transformation in a country – the transformation of an agri-food system from a high prevalence of subsistence farming to high productivity, so that poverty falls and food security increases – is contingent on man
Analyzing the patterns and drivers of agricultural transformation in Ethiopia, focusing on the household level analysis
The Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project aims to identify actions and investments in agriculture that can leverage agricultural development for improved nutrition, and make recommendations to further women’s empowerment
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.
ANEW will develop and validate measures of women’s empowerment for use by projects engaged in marketing agricultural products using collective-based organizations.
The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) was established in 2009 to support national and regional efforts to improve cereal production growth in South Asia.
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
The Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) initiative is a five-year agricultural research project funded by the EU.
FIPP expands traditional ways of thinking about the global food system and provides evidence-based policy assessments aimed at making agri-food industries and food systems more inclusive, efficient, and conducive.
International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) is a network of linked economic, water, and crop models.
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).
Designed around the scale-up of the Soutenir l’Exploitation Familiale pour Lancer l’Élevage des Volailles et Valoriser l’Économie Rurale (SELEVER) project in Burkina Faso.
InovAgro provides recommendations to MSD practitioners and SDC of how to improve and strengthen the monitoring and evaluation system of future MSD projects, and influence the design of future agricultural policies in Mozambique.
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.
This program will identify and deploy innovative approaches to achieving resilient food systems in a context of climate change.