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Food provides the nutrients and energy that are essential for human health.
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting national economies through several channels including global primary commodity trade and market disruptions.
As of October 2021, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in African countries are still unfolding.
As an outgrowth of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods (AUC 2014) established both a clear
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Remote sensing and machine learning for food crop production data in Africa post-COVID-19
The world is experiencing an unprecedented health crisis during the spread of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2).
The COVID-19 pandemic has quickly spread across the world over the last two years, causing a significant number of deaths—more than 4.55 million as of October 2021—and hospitalizations as well as economic disruption.
This chapter summarizes the findings from analyses conducted by AKADEMIYA2063 on local staple food market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.
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ATOR 2021: Summary and conclusions
The 2021 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) includes three major sections in addition to the chapter tracking progress toward Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) goals.
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The measurement of resilience capacities through the integration of macrolevel and microlevel indicators
Resilience measurement can now be viewed as an established body of research with 15 years of empirical evidence.
There is a global consensus that the current food system, involving the production, processing, transport, and consumption of food, is failing—threatening our food security, nutritional security and health, social justice, and natural resources—an
In early 2020, African governments adopted a wide range of containment and confinement measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the continent.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all the countries in the world, transforming lives and economies. Many governments imposed containment measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Examing emerging data on impact of COVID-19 on African economies and food systems, reviewing the responses to the pandemic, and advances the discussion on methodologies to measure the impacts of and resilience to shocks.
Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have further exacerbated long-standing challenges within African food systems and exposed new sources of vulnerability in people’s livelihoods.
In the 2003 Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security, African heads of state and government resolved to urgently implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)—a continent wide framework for reducing povert
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted governments across the world to introduce unprecedented lockdowns and other restrictions on mobility to slow the spread of coronavirus and to avoid overwhelming healthcare systems.
Les économistes travaillant sur les barrières au commerce international s’intéressent beaucoup depuis une dizaine d’années aux barrières administratives, appelées parfois par euphémisme tracasseries administratives (« red tape » en anglais) et à l
While agriculture has been resilient to the health crisis in comparison with the service and industry sectors, the sector's resiliency is gradually being corroded by climate change, with lasting, harmful effects for agriculture and food systems