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By Frans Schapendonk and Giulia Caroli. Projects that support greater food security must look at challenges through the lens of gender. At CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security, we recognise that for communities to have sustainable access to nutritious food, it’s essential that sustainable development goal five ‘gender equality’ is achieved. We apply a gender perspective to accurately assess how climate shocks can impact women and men differently, depending on multiple social factors.  Co-sponsored by Canada and Germany, the Climate and Security: An Emerging Context in a New Era

For centuries, people across Mexico and Central America have been using a traditional method, known as nixtamalization, to process their maize. Now carried out both at household and industrial levels, this technique offers a range of nutritional and processing benefits. It could easily be adopted by farmers and consumers in other parts of the world.

WorldFish researchers are working alongside small-scale aquatic food producers and value chain actors in Myanmar to strengthen the resilience of aquatic food-based livelihoods impacted by both COVID-19 and widespread pollution. Aquatic foods caught and harvested in inland waters like lakes and rivers are a vital source of income and nutrition for many of Myanmar’s rural communities. Small fish are often

For World Meteorological Day, we’re looking at how seasonal climate forecasts have been developed in East Africa and how that process is evolving. In 1997-1998, Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) were established throughout Africa to reduce drought impacts on smallholder agriculture. However, gaps between farmers’ needs and how RCOF seasonal forecasts are presented have limited their usability. The Regional Climate

Watch our latest video to learn what goes on behind the scenes to conserve of some of the world’s most diverse collections of beans, cassava, forages and bananas

The month of March hosts several gender-based celebrations, including International Women’s Day (IWD). IITA is a gender-inclusive Institute that sees gender equality as very important in improving livelihoods in society and creating an enabling work environment for staff. Knowing that achieving this goal is improbable in unequal, marginalized, and vulnerable groups, IITA developed a policy to ensure a gender-balanced workplace and formed

SANO Foods Limited and IITA, through the Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) project, have embarked on a public-private sector partnership to promote the cultivation of improved cassava varieties and the consumption of locally processed products in Nigeria. The initiative recently kicked off with a “Joint public exhibition of fortified foods and cassava varietal display” at

Saint Louis – Senegal, 23 March 2021 To support the government of Senegal’s efforts in mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on vulnerable farming households, AfricaRice and the Mastercard Foundation have joined forces to roll out a youth-focused intervention, called the Rice Agripreneurship Project (RAP).   Over two years RAP will boost the resilience of the rice value chain