There is growing recognition that water insecurity – the inability to reliably access sufficient water for all household uses – is commonly experienced globally and has myriad adverse consequences for human well-being.
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This report explores the ways in which men and women in rural areas of four countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)—Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda—experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and associated income losses, as well as their responses to the crisis
Accounting for dietary deprivations in rural Africa: Poor households, poor farms or poor food environments?
Agricultural and food policies are increasingly asked to do more to improve the dietary quality of populations in lower and middle income countries (LMICs), especially severely malnourished rural populations.
Fragility, Conflict, and Migration addresses challenges to livelihood, food, and climate security faced by some of the most vulnerable populations worldwide.
Intervention Context: WFP’s activities in Burkina Faso and Niger focus on fragile agrarian communities in the Sahel, where cyclical floods and droughts combine with decreasing soil fertility and increasing desertification, among other challenges,
The World Food Programme (WFP) supports communities to mitigate the impact of and build resilience to natural and human-made shocks and stressors that contribute to food insecurity and destabilize people’s livelihoods.
Public agriculture investment and food security in ECOWAS
Public agriculture expenditure is a significant growth catalyst. However, evaluating the impact of public agriculture expenditure on food security remains scanty.
Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have risen rapidly in recent months, driven in large part by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia.
As development and humanitarian agencies increasingly advance the objective of ‘building resilience’, three resilience measurement methods have come into especially widespread use: the Resilience Indicators for Measurement and Analysis approach de
It is widely recognized that periods of crisis affect men and women differently, mediated by their access to resources and information, as well as social and institutional structures that may systematically disadvantage women from being able to ac
In response to the first case of COVID-19 in Niger on March 19, the government announced a state of emergency on March 27, 2020. Restrictions were gradually lifted starting in May 2020. The spread of COVID-19 in Niger has been limited.
The countries sharing the Niger River suffer from poor access to clean water and energy as well as food insecurity.
Gender parity and inorganic fertilizer technology adoption in farm households: Evidence from Niger
This study seeks to address the gap in understanding the role of gender parity in inorganic fertiliser technology adoption in Niger.
High rainfall variability, resulting in frequent floods, droughts and locus infestations, undermines Niger’s efforts to ensure its food security.
Economics of land degradation in Niger
Land degradation poses daunting challenges to Niger and the country has designed several policies and strategies for combatting it.
Summary and Conclusion [In Fostering transformation and growth in Niger’s agricultural sector]
For Niger, the development of agriculture is essential to strategies to raise incomes and eradicate poverty in a sustainable manner, that is without further depleting its natural resource base.
Niger
Le Niger est un pays enclavé de l’Afrique de l’Ouest situé entre 11 ° 37´ et 23 ° 23´ latitude nord et entre 00 ° 10´ et 16 ° 00´ longitude est , avec une superficie de 1 267 000 kilomètres carrés.