Raising Social Equity: Indigenous people’s contributions to advancing sustainable agriculture in Kenya

Stories of change: Analyzing aspirations of rural women and men

Looking into the aspirations of rural people provides insights into how they earn, invest, make…

Improved tropical forages: A low-emissions livestock diet

In the soil just below the hooves of livestock live the Earth’s life support system—as plants…

Work on a ‘forgotten foods’ manifesto begins in Africa

To trigger research and value chain actions as well as advocacy and promotion of indigenous…

Mighty millets super grains of power

The United Nations General Assembly adopted an India-sponsored resolution to mark 2023 as the intern…

ISDC on the Future of One CGIAR

Count on water to disaster-proof global food systems

Covid-19 has cast a long shadow over global dialogues around food and nutrition security bringing…

The importance of human-centered ecological restoration

The launch of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) will direct a lot of…

Adult plant resistance (APR): the strategy to beat persistent pathogens

The three rust diseases, yellow (stripe) rust, black (stem) rust, and brown (left) rust occur…

Hybrid seed production and marketing advances

“My goal is to produce and sell 200 metric tons of hybrid maize by 2025,”…

The transformational role of science for the UN Food Systems Summit agenda

BY JOACHIM VON BRAUN Food systems at the global level and in many countries and…

STEP-Oyo bets on the next generation to secure food security

Oyo State has realized that the interest of teenagers and youth can be captured through…

IITA and TOUTON Ltd - Coffee farmer diversification strategies

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Uganda Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) …

Working towards a decent standard of living for smallholder coffee farmers in the Mount Elgon region

The GIZ Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) programme has partnered with the…

Catalyzing a greater supply of seed potato in Kenya

As a food security crop and cash crop, potato is a source of income for farmers, traders and…

Hands-on experience in seed production

Recently, a group of 40 postgraduate students from Nepal’s Agriculture and Forestry University (AF…

Innovation, the key for bridging R&D with impact at scale

The need to innovate in agriculture is more urgent than ever. Rising populations will require…

Nine more harvests to transform our food systems: Let’s make them count for everyone, everywhere, and for all time

BY CHRISTINE CAMPEAU, LAWRENCE HADDAD, GUNHILD STORDALEN, SANDRINE DIXSON-DECLÈVE,SALEEMUL HUQ AND …

Global Landscapes Forum Africa: Restoring Africa’s drylands needs a localized, integrated approach, say experts at the conference

At the recent GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands Conference, thousands of restoration practit…