Despite the adverse effects of pesticides on the environment and human health, they are a key ingredient in boosting agricultural productivity as a way of meeting global food demand.

Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.

Ce document cherche à intégrer deux typologies spatiales existantes pour mieux comprendre les principaux obstacles et contraintes à la sécurité alimentaire et aux moyens de subsistance viables des agriculteurs au Mali.

Irrigation is an important strategy to increase agricultural productivity, improve nutrition security and reduce climate-related risks in rural Africa, but adoption of this technology has been low.

Our paper aims to investigating the impact of conflict on population displacement, agricultural production and agricultural assets, and the mitigating effect of food aid. The paper is structured in the following way.

With the aim of contributing to this emerging literature, we investigated: (i) how MDD-W is linked to household food insecurity based on the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and on the Household Hunger Scale (HHS); (ii) how MDD-W is

Through sustainable land and water management in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book demonstrates the beneficial role of water and water management in drylands agriculture

The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention co

LA VARIABILITÉ DE LA PRODUCTION DUE AUX CONDITIONS CLIMATIQUES EST UNE SOURCE IMPORTANTE DE risques pour la production agricole, et une contrainte majeure pour la croissance agricole et la sécurité alimentaire.

This policy note summarizes research into the gender-differentiated impacts of climatic changes on farmers’ production possibilities using a representative sample of farmers in rainfed and irrigated areas of the Segou region of Mali during the 200

L’économie malienne est fortement dominée par le secteur agricole ; 70 % de la population active travaille dans ce secteur et l’agriculture représente près de la moitié du produit intérieur brut agricole (PIBA) (FAO 2009 ; Banque mondiale 2009).

This paper investigates differences in household production and consumption among small- and large-scale irrigators to assess whether the scale of an irrigation project increases household welfare in Mali.

There are no easy solutions to the ongoing food price crisis. Maize and wheat prices doubled between 2003 and 2008, and the price of rice doubled in the first four months of 2008, rising 33 percent in a single day.

"Significant changes in the agricultural sector in northern Mali suggest that irrigation has made a large contribution to welfare increases over the past eight years.

In Mali, liberalization of seed markets for sorghum and millet, the staple food crops, has not advanced at the same rate or with the same measurable success as liberalization of grain markets.

Agricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor.