Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.
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Africa is experiencing a rapid growth in urban population with a billion more people expected to live in cities by 2050.
project paper
Répartition spatiale de multiples formes de malnutrition en Afrique de l’Ouest : Études de cas de quatre pays
Les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire (PRFI), notamment en Afrique subsaharienne, font face à une « nouvelle réalité nutritionnelle » (Popkin, Corvalan, and Grummer-Strawn 2020) appelée le double fardeau de la malnutrition, où les enfants de m
project paper
Spatial patterns of multiple malnutrition types in West Africa: Four country case studies
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in Africa south of the Sahara, face a “new nutrition reality” (Popkin, Corvalan, and Grummer-Strawn 2020) referred to as the double burden of malnutrition, where children under five years of age
Background: The diets of millions of poor individuals lack adequate amount of essential nutrients. Objective: To examine the determinants of household dietary diversity in Burkina Faso and assess whether the choice of a diversity metric matters.
Background: Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is a major global priority.
Women’s empowerment is a process that includes increases in intrinsic agency (power within); instrumental agency (power to); and collective agency (power with).
This policy note summarizes research that assessed the likely impact of climate change on aflatoxin contamination in groundnuts (in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria) and in maize (in Burkina Faso, Honduras, Guatemala, Nepal, Niger, and Nigeria), and
discussion paper
Evaluating risk of aflatoxin field contamination from climate change using new modules inside DSSAT
Aflatoxins affect the health of close to 70 percent of the population of the world through contaminated food.
book chapter
Burkina Faso
Le Burkina Faso est un pays enclavé d’Afrique de l’Ouest couvrant environ 274 000 kilomètres carrés.
La présente fiche d'information donne un aperçu des principaux indicateurs relatifs à la R&D agricole du pays concerné, visualisés par des graphiques abordables.
This country factsheet presents key agricultural R&D indicators in a highly accessible visual display.
This book demonstrates the beneficial role of water and water management in drylands agriculture
project paper
Investir dans l’irrigation pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire dans le futur – Perspective 2050 au Burkina Faso
L’agriculture irriguée joue un rôle important dans la production alimentaire mondiale – les terres irriguées représentent 20% des terres cultivées et contribuent à hauteur de 40% de la production alimentaire mondiale.
This current synthesis highlights the cross-cutting trends and challenges that emerged from the country-level data for West Africa, structuring it within five broad areas: funding capacity, human resource capacity, research outputs, research-relat
dataset
ASTI Burkina Faso database
Working through collaborative alliances with numerous national and regional R&D agencies and international institutions, Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) is a comprehensive and trusted source of information on agricultural