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Alliance researchers in Kenya’s Kisii and Meru counties look at how men and women perceive livestock, crop and forage production differently.

When used appropriately, satellite data is rapidly expanding the potential to customize insurance for smallholder farmers, potentially increasing the resilience of marginalized rural communities.

Quantifying agricultural productivity relies on measures of crop production and land area. Those measures need to be accurate, but it is often difficult to source reliable data. Inaccurate measurements affect our understanding of the relationship between agricultural productivity and land area. Researchers examined the sensitivity of empirical assessments of this relationship to alternative measurement protocols. Scientists from the International Maize

A new digital soil map for Nepal provides access to location-specific information on soil properties for any province, district, municipality or a particular area of interest. The interactive map provides information that will be useful to make new crop- and site-specific fertilizer recommendations for the country. Produced by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), in collaboration with Nepal

Health has certainly been in the spotlight over the past year. And how could it not be? The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the fact that many groups across the world struggle to make ends meet with little daily income, have poorer housing conditions and education, fewer employment opportunities, and have little or no access to safe

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To make garri, cassava roots have to be peeled. Traditionally, the peels have been dumped in huge heaps and burned, or allowed to rot — turning them into an environmental hazard, as toxic compounds in the raw peels leached into waterways. Some producers attempted to dry the peels in the open air for use as a livestock feed, but this

Discussions on gender integration in conventional breeding are not new. These talks started in the 1980s when women farmers were integrated into on-station and on-farm breeding activities (Sperling, Loevinsohn, & Ntabomvura, 2008). Currently, gender integration has shifted from mainly involving women and men farmers to include other value chain actors such as traders, processors, seed companies, aggregators, consumers, researchers, etc.