Senegal faces post-harvest losses which affect somewhere between 12 to 40 percent of GDP, and often result in annual financial losses of around USD 167 million. Post-harvest losses in cereals, protein crops, and horticulture have a direct impact on the country’s food and economic sovereignty, and occur at various stages of the agricultural value chain. When it comes to horticulture for
Researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and their collaborators have been working on how to harness the power of the estimated 549 million Wifi hotspots worldwide, resulting in a project that used anonymized data gathered from free Wi-Fi to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on Hanoi’s wet markets during the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In Africa, over 33 million smallholder farms are the backbone of the continent’s food supply, yet their access to financial services is woefully limited. Traditional lending models often overlook these farmers due to perceived high risks and operational costs. Add to this the increasing vulnerability to climate extremes, and the scenario becomes even grimmer. In Kenya, for instance, the dairy
The D4RABs project aims to transform banana monocultures by incentivizing and empowering farmers to co-design and adopt an innovative polyculture concept to enhance resilience and ecological functionality of banana landscapes. Polyculture is a farming practice that involves growing multiple crops together in the same place at the same time with different arrangements. D4RABs will promote sustainable biodiverse agricultural practices by
To address these issues and unlock financial opportunities, the Alliance and Financial Access Consulting Services (FACS), have embarked on an initiative in Kenya under the Climate Resilience and Livestock and Climate Initiatives to investigate key adaptation strategies that can de-risk the dairy farming sector and improve access to finance for smallholders. This review is a crucial component of a broader
Tegucigalpa. La Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería (SAG) realizó el lanzamiento de los proyectos “Mapeo para Sistemas Agroalimentarios Resilientes en Centro América y África Subsahariana (SoilFER) y Suelos de Honduras, como un fomento a la producción agrícola mediante la gestión sostenible del suelo. El gobierno de Honduras, a través de la SAG, marca un hito trascendental con el lanzamiento oficial
“Fetching water is normally a woman’s responsibility. This can be a dangerous, time-consuming and physically demanding task. Long distance by foot, often more than once a day, can leave women vulnerable to attack and often exclude them from earning an income.” Approximately 72% of Kenya’s 55 million people live in rural areas (World Bank, 2022a), and primarily depend on agriculture for
The world faces multiple, simultaneous crises: biodiversity decline, the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, multiple conflicts, and increasing inequalities between communities, with many economic activities threatened by the impacts of climate change. While progress is being made towards improving these challenges, it’s not yet happening at the necessary speed and scale. At the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, our research,