This project aims to help West African nations develop policies based on a better understanding of why youth leave rural areas, and what economic activities they pursue in cities.
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.
In recent years the security of women's entitlement to land and land-based resources has been compromised by a number of factors.
Women's right to land in Anglophone Cameroon is subject to two conflicting regimes, customary and statutory.
As in other sub-Saharan countries, small-scale subsistence farming constitutes the predominant source of livelihood in Ghana.
In recent years, small-scale farmers in developing countries have looked beyond their national boundaries to expand the market for their produce. For this reason, compliance with various food safety standards has gained significance.
Poverty and land degradation are severe and interrelated problems in the Sahel. Land degradation reduces current agricultural productivity and is a form of "dissaving" natural capital that will affect future production and income.
The Spanish demand for foreign women workers has allowed certain Senegalese migrants to find work and legalize their situation in the country.