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Better alignment to the needs and priorities of African countries; Demand-driven partnerships; Using digital tools to disseminate and scale out research knowledge and technologies to increase agriculture production while taking care of the environment; Providing science-based evidence for decision making to increase farmers’ resilience to climate change and addressing youth unemployment. These are among the priority interventions of CGIAR

Better alignment to the needs and priorities of African countries, demand-driven partnerships to using digital tools to disseminate and scale out research knowledge and technologies to increase agriculture production while taking care of the environment, providing science-based evidence for decision making to increase farmers’ resilience to climate change and addressing youth unemployment… These and others are among the priority interventions

By: Dylan Anderson-BerensPrevious blogs in this series introduced the Food Action Alliance (FAA), its criteria to design and select flagship projects that take a food systems approach, and the resulting portfolio of FAA flagship projects and pipeline initiatives in Latin America. In this final blog, we explain how the FAA and its flagships relate to the United Nations Food Systems

WorldFish’s initiative to increase women’s empowerment through small fish production in Bangladesh’s northern provinces of Rangpur and Rajshahi was featured on Colours FM 101.6 radio show Women in Aquaculture and Nutrition. Read more

As most of the world relies on coffee, producers, roasters, and investors are becoming more committed to keep coffee-driven deforestation in Vietnam to a minimum.Through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and remote sensing, the Alliance and partners are providing information and opportunities to bridge gaps in monitoring forest loss due to coffee production.

Background: Grown on 4.0 M ha, postrainy sorghum is the lifeline of dryland farmers in Maharashtra state of India. The grain is highly valued for its food use and its stover is highly preferred for animal feed. The crop is grown purely on residual soil moisture with only 50 mm rainfall received during crop growth period. While sorghum productivity during

As the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa becomes hotter and wetter, root, tuber and banana crops (RT&B crops) will continue to be suitable for the region. A study recently published in Agricultural Systems concludes that future rainfall and temperature shifts due to climate change will be somewhat favorable to RT&B crops in the region apart from potatoes. “There’s little

The IFAD-funded ‘Scaling Readiness of Conservation Agriculture System (CAS) in Moldova‘ study, conducted in collaboration with SKiM project staff and national experts on conservation agriculture in Moldova, in close cooperation with the Consolidated IFAD Programme Implementation Unit in Moldova (CPIU-IFAD), analyzed over 1000 CAS-related resources in the country. It also compared Moldova to countries with similar agricultural, economic, and social systems