Support to the CGIAR Program on Aquaculture
More than 700 million people depend on aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) for their livelihood.
More than 700 million people depend on aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) for their livelihood.
Agriculture has made remarkable advances in the past decades, but progress in improving the nutrition and health of the poor in developing countries is lagging behind.
Because roots, tubers, and bananas are food crops primarily traded in local markets, their prices are not subject to the volatility that affects global markets for staple grains such as wheat and maize.
This project creates the authorization for capacity building support to develop and manage the Livestock Vaccine Innovation Fund (LVIF).
This project is part of the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) portfolio.
Across Africa, postharvest losses along the food chain from farm to fork jeopardize the food security of resource-poor farmers.
In a context of rising food prices, millions of Africans in marginal areas rely on a range of indigenous or underutilized crops for food, nutrition and income security.
Livelihood vulnerability is a major characteristic of life in semi-arid areas of sub-Saharan Africa such as the Sahel.
In November 2003, the heads of states belonging to the Permanent Interstate Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) undertook to work toward the adoption of a common land tenu
The groundnut basin in Sénégal is highly populated, densely cultivated and facing a crisis that is both economic (characterized by low productivity, poverty, food insecurity) and ecological (characterized by reduced soil fertility, erosion, desert