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Vietnam’s livestock sector is growing rapidly, with farmers, cooperatives, consumers, and policymakers striving to deliver safer, high-quality animal-sourced foods. Yet the sector faces significant challenges including climate change, animal diseases, fragmented market systems, and environmental pressures. At the same time, livestock offers opportunities to improve rural livelihoods, nutrition, and resilience particularly for ethnic minorities and rural women that have fewer

Increasing the adoption of “clean” cookstoves among displaced populations has long been a goal of the humanitarian sector. Clean cookstoves run on environmentally and climate friendly sources of fuel such as solar, LPG, or electricity, while traditional cookstoves use firewood or charcoal.

On July 8–9th 2025, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city hosted the Mongolia Economic Forum. The forum brought together an eclectic mix of government officials, private sector leaders, civil society organizations, academics, and international partners. Set against the vast backdrop of the Mongolian steppe, the forum created a fitting stage to discuss how the world can finance solutions to reverse land degradation

M’bé, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 August 2025 – A three-day Africa-wide workshop on strengthening rice seed networks has set a new course for transforming the continent’s rice sector. Convened by Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and partners from 25–27 August 2025 in M’bé, Côte d’Ivoire, the event brought together 123 stakeholders from 18 African countries, including seed enterprises, millers, regulators, researchers, meteorological

September 13, 2025, Lagos, Nigeria – Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Director General Dr. Baboucarr Manneh met with Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, to explore strategic opportunities for strengthening Africa’s rice sector. The high-level audience focused on exploring collaborative opportunities and innovative approaches to accelerate rice sector development across the African continent. The discussions centered on

 This is part 1 of our building food, water and climate security in fragile and conflict setting series.   In displacement settings, something as ordinary as cooking is an extraordinarily complicated matter. Refugees often rely on firewood or charcoal, exposing them to health risks, environmental degradation, and even violence. For these reasons, increasing the adoption of “clean” cookstoves among displaced populations

As Southern Africa faces mounting climate pressures and food system vulnerabilities, Zambia is stepping forward with an ambitious plan to sustainably transform its livestock and aquaculture sectors. From July 3 to 4, 2025, key stakeholders convened at Twangale Resort in Lusaka for a co-design workshop under the CGIAR Sustainable Animal and Aquatic Foods Science Program. The two-day event was a

Agriculture in Zambia is traditionally the preserve of the older generations. It is mostly seen as a last resort – vocation, an occupation one takes up only after retirement. However, experts are calling for a mindset shift towards an industry with untapped potential to deliver jobs, wealth, and development. At a recent engagement between Mukuba University and IITA-Zambia held at the