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The hype around digital tools can divert attention from farmers’ real, on-the-ground challenges.
Local water conservation measures could buffer the potential negative impacts of climate change in eastern Africa and boost food production.
The world faces compounding crises in food availability. Efforts in Sierra Leone to address these challenges could serve as a foundation for wider food security initiatives.
Muslims internationally fast during the day in the holy month. But largely-Islamic nations are feeling the effects of climate change, making life harder both during and outside of Ramadan.
Increasing the quality of a traditional wine sourced from plantain in Nigeria offers a viable way of reducing waste and boosting food security.
The relationship between small-scale irrigation and food security, diet quality, and nutrition is growing.
The negative effects of conflict on human capital – particularly nutrition, health and education – are larger than commonly thought.
Kenya’s GMO policy about-turn was underpinned by improved safeguards on top of a commitment to review each new application on a case-by-case basis.
As droughts intensify, how can we increase crop production in a sustainable way? This is a multidimensional scientific and societal challenge to ensure future food security.
A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
Monitoring and enforcing competition rules is essential to level the playing field for fairer food markets.
Research questions the idea that getting commercial seeds and fertilisers to smallholder farmers will double yields and incomes.
When a pandemic hits, questions that immediately arise include what impact there will be on public health, the economy and other aspects of society. Another set of questions involves response priorities…
It’s time to redesign food systems that deliver healthy foods, allow farming families to make a good living, and support thriving societies.
The potential exists for malnutrition to exacerbate the health consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic.
By using the simple technique of harvesting when the lower leaves begin to turn to yellow, yam farmers can determine the earliest possible time to harvest.
Nigeria recently approved the world’s first GM cowpea, which provides full protection against the pod-borer Maruca, a major problem for this important crop.
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
Top contributors
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Research Assistant, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Professor and DSTI/NRF SARChI Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Plant geneticist, molecular biologist and director of the Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles ISRA-CERAAS, Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA)
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Professor & Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods, Rhodes University
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Écophysiologiste, Cirad
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Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO
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Senior Scientist, Agriculture and the Environment, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Principal Scientist in ecophysiology, agronomy and modelling, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Professor of Economics, University of Essex
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Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Associate professor, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand