Initiatives to combat climate change often strive to include women’s voices, but there is limited evidence on how this feature influences program design or its benefits for women.
The National Resilience Strategy (NRS) aims to build resilience against economic and environmental shocks, promoting inclusive growth, food security, and well-being for all Malawians.
Titukulane was designed to reduce the number of chronically food insecure households by enhancing the capacities of local and national governance structures to implement resilience-focused policies.
Welcome to MoreMilk, a pioneering project led by the International Research Institute and its partners.
Background | The challenges facing food, land, and water systems are numerous and complex. In addressing these interlinked challenges, the choices facing governments and their development partners have also become increasingly complicated.
Malawi is one of the most committed countries in Africa to improving nutrition, yet it still has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the region and is struggling to turn commitments into action at scale.
Despite the potential importance of seed quality to agricultural productivity growth, many governments in sub-Saharan Africa lack the capacity to expand quality assurance systems even where there is expressed interest.
Central banks play a critical role in the economy, with policy levers that influence and are influenced by climate change.
The effects of agricultural technology adoption on farm performance have been studied extensively but with limited information on who should be targeted during scaling-up.
Experimental evidence from women-owned microenterprises in Ethiopia. Post-training surveys find that business training improves profits & sales.
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
Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems.
Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems.
Many smallholder farmers, especially women and other marginalized groups, face difficulty in accessing loans and other forms of credit.
To gain a better understanding of intrahousehold bargaining processes, surveys increasingly collect data from co-heads individually.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred interest in the use of remote data collection techniques, including phone surveys, in developing country contexts.
Engaging burgeoning youth populations in developing country agriculture is seen as an important strategy toward effective, efficient, and sustainable food system transformation.
This study presents qualitative findings from an assessment conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute and Cultural Practice, LLC of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) Agri
Technologies and innovations are key drivers of human development and competitiveness.