Globally, COVID-19 has exposed farmers to high levels of income insecurity, underlining the importance of building resilience among male and female farmers.
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The challenge to produce more food to meet the growing world demand requires a careful, integrated and global approach, to secure the efficient use of land, water and energy at the global level, aimed at increasing productivity and food supply wit
Impacts of the central South-to-North Water Diversion on groundwater storage recovery within the context of climate variability and other policies.
The diffusion of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia: Stakeholder analysis using Net-Map
Small-scale irrigation (SSI) provides great benefits to farmers in terms of increased yields and profits, better food and nutrition security and greater resilience to climate shocks.
Evaluating satellite-based evapotranspiration estimates for hydrological applications in data-scarce regions: A case in Ethiopia
Remotely sensed actual evapotranspiration (AET) may help fine-tune hydrological models in data-scarce regions to improve water-management interventions.
COVID-19 has, like nothing that has gone before, revealed the “systems wiring” of the modern, globalized world, and how destructive disturbances to those systems can be.
Gender and food security in Honduras
This study, supported by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), obtained information on a range of topics associated with food security and nutrition, gender, and water access in selected villages of Honduras.
This report describes the baseline data collected from 1,835 men and women respondents in 998 households in two irrigation sites in the central dry zone in Myanmar to help diagnose, design, and test interventions to enhance the Myanmar Agricultura
Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience
Nigeria’s rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector.
The state must also combine the provision of irrigation with public procurement of rice and wheat and improved access to markets for high-value crops.
This note presents the results of an evaluation of public investment options for Egypt’s agri-food system.
Much of my research has been on the need for collective action in managing natural resources, and the value of groups to facilitate collective agency for women’s empowerment.
Immediately after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Ethiopia in March 2020, the Government of Ethiopia took several public health measures to prevent increased levels of infection These included closing all schools and restricting large gath
In Ethiopia, the average person eats just 42kg of fruit and vegetables per year. This is far below the WHO recommendation of 146kg per year. Fruits and vegetables are excellent sources of vitamins and minerals, vital for our body.
Drivers of adoption of small-scale irrigation in Mali and its impacts on nutrition across sex of irrigators
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.
Sticky seeds: Why old seeds continue to dominate the rice-wheat agriculture in Eastern India
Preliminary findings of a joint ICAR-IFPRI survey covering more than 2,000 farmers from 40 districts of Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Odisha show that the adoption of improved varieties of rice and wheat seeds is slow in the region.