This Quarterly presents practical solutions by exploring ten critical trends in the agriculture and food landscapes that should be prioritised for stakeholder action in the next decade. These trends were carefully and strategically selected based...

SPIA has developed a comprehensive, country-level approach to documenting the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations linked to CGIAR research. The first focal country for this approach is Ethiopia, where SPIA has been working since 201...

The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has been the lead implementing partner in Tanzania for the maize component of the YieldWise Food Loss Reduction Initiative (YWS) supported by the Rockefeller Foundation between 2016 and 2019. The ini...

Resilience has recently emerged as a conceptual and operational buzzword spanning every facet of the international development agenda. The rise of resilience provides renewed opportunities for geographers to critically engage with the policy sphere a...

The third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was released last week. The report finds both good news and bad news for Africa’s trading system, as well as a few promising trends.

The third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was released last week. The report finds both good news and bad news for Africa’s trading system, as well as a few promising trends.

(Cross-post from IFPRI.org) As food systems in developing countries change rapidly, one important trend is the growing role of modern supermarkets in urban food retailing, with far-reaching implications for food marketing and human health. To investi...

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of financial inclusion of the rural youth in Uganda, with a specific focus on their engagement in the agricultural sector and the financial services that are available to them to pur...

This synthesis report is based on work done through the Joint European Union and International Labour Office of the Government of Rwanda (EU-ILO) project, aimed at strengthening the impact on employment of sectoral and trade policies. It synthesizes...

The Strengthening African Rural Smallholders (STARS) program is a five-year program (2016-2020) implemented by ICCO Cooperation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. Through a market systems development approach it focuses on improving access to...

This project will contribute to regional integration and effective implementation of the Agricultural and Rural Development Strategy of the East African Community and Food Security policies in member countries (with a focus on Burundi, Kenya, and...

Ethiopia currently sits as the world’s sixth largest coffee producer. The industry employs approximately 15 million people and accounts for 28 percent of the country’s total annual exports. Arabica coffee originated in Ethiopia, and consumers know th...