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FROM THE AFRICAP PROGRAMME TEAM

Welcome to the second edition of the GCRF-AFRICAP newsletter aimed at keeping you, as our key stakeholders, updated on developments relating to the Programme.

The world’s food systems face two great challenges today: (i) to produce enough food to nourish a global population of seven billion people without harming the environment; and (ii) to make sure food systems deliver nutrition to everyone, particularly the world’s poorest, many

Launched at COP24 by FAO’s Deputy Director General Ms. Maria Helena Semedo.

Based on the already existing impacts of climate change, agro-ecological systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are the most vulnerable.

04 September 2019. SARCOF-23 Luanda, Angola

SADC member states need to invest in disaste risk management during the coming season of recovery

PRETORIA. 1 March 2019 - The Board of Governors of the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr.

FANRPAN Digest is a monthly report that is produced by the National Agricultural Marketing Council through the Agricultural Industry Trusts Division.

The Western Cape Government (WCG) Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (DEA&DP) recently commissioned an assessment of the potential economic impacts of climate change to inform decision-making.

A £9.2million research programme focused on improving evidence-based policy making to develop sustainable, productive, agricultural systems, resilient to climate change has been launched in Pretoria this week.

Featured in this issue:
1. End-line data collection
2. ATONU stories of change
3. Web-based framework for selecting Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions
4. Events
1. End-line data collection

Attainment of food, income and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa remains curtailed by the inability of food producers, consumers, their national governments and other food value chain players to prevent staple food losses after harvest.

In this issue:
1. Featured – Nutrition comic books
2. Implementation of NSIs:

Since its inception, FANRPAN has operated mainly in the Eastern and Southern regions of the continent. In 2010, the FANRPAN Annual General Meeting passed a resolution to amend the constitution so that the organisation could extend its mandate to include

This Policy Brief on Gender Roles, Relationships and Social Equity in Post-Harvest Management of Grains in Mozambique addresses the following issues: (i) A summary of the gender roles and relationships and social equity practices related to Post-harvest Management (PHM) of gra

Featured in this issue:
1. ATONU's Nutrition-Sensitive Intervention (NSI) Selection Tool Updated Version
2. End-line data collection
3. Tanzania field assistants reflection meeting
4. Process monitoring
5. ATONU recipe book

Amid global concerns over rising food and fuel prices, changing diets and climate change, irrigated agriculture plays an important role in increasing food production in an uncertain and resource-constrained world.

South Africa should do more to boost its local poultry production capacity

http://www.icrisat.org/groundnut-immunity-to-aflatoxin/

The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) with support from the MasterCard Foundation convened a policy training session on the 27th of November 2017 for youth working in Climate Smart Agriculture on the sidelines of the 4th Global Science C

Executive Summary

The "no agriculture, no deal" campaign’s first steps can be traced to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

Climate change and agriculture

Under the Competitive Research Fund (CRF) and Incentive Fund (IF) PAEPARD is supporting 4 research projects:

Research at the global level has shown that halving losses and waste along the food value-chain would save food resources equivalent to 25% of current agricultural production.