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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.

Climate resilience is key and must be built around participatory c

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This issue of Trade Probe covers the following topics:

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From an increase of 38.7% in the second quarter, the Agricultural Industry continued to power ahead, expanding by 44.2% during the third quarter. This is the largest quarterly jump in agriculture production since the second quarter of 1996.

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WHITE MAIZE (2017/18 Season) Supply:

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

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

On 3 February 2015, the Financial and Fiscal Commission (the Commission) tabled at Parliament a report on Climate Change, Household Vulnerability and Climate Smart Agriculture: The Case of Two South African Provinces.

The concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture

Following the activities of the Global Program for Food Security (GPFS), the technical discussion workshop and the national dialogue on food standards/norms related to post-harvest management took place on 29-30 April 2015, at Kaya Kwanga Residential Hotel in Maputo.

Abstract

Groundnuts form the basis for food and nutrition security for the majority of the smallholder farmers and are a vital component in the livelihoods of rural families. The challenge is that the groundnuts of these smallholder farmers are prone to Aflatoxin contamination.