Over the past 20 years, value chain development (VCD) initiatives and value chain research have increasingly integrated gender dimensions to allow for gender-differentiated employment and income opportunities and other benefits for women and men,
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Efforts to promote the development of agricultural value chains are a common element of strategies to stimulate economic growth in low-income countries.
Over the past two decades, seed systems and markets in many sub-Saharan African countries have become a central topic in the public discourse around agricultural development.
It is estimated that nearly one in seven people — more than 1 billion in total — are classified as migrants in national statistics.
All agricultural production—whether of crops, trees, forages, livestock, or fish—starts with seeds, making seed security vital to food security.
Rapid urbanization in Africa south of the Sahara continues to highlight the importance of informal retailers as a source of both food and employment for the urban poor.