Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective
Legumes play a significant role in food and nutritional security and contribute to environmental sustainability. Although legumes are highly beneficial crops, it has not yet been possible to enhance their yield and production to a satisfactory level.
Resolving land use conflicts through Joint Village Land Use Planning
Meet district participatory land use team member, Patrick – also known as the peacemaker – who helps communities implement CGIAR’s Joint Village Land Use Planning process.
A critical examination of rural out-migration studies in Ethiopia: considering impacts on agriculture in the sending communities
Labor migration is a complex phenomenon, yet while much attention has been paid to understanding the drivers of migration, there is a huge knowledge and policy gap regarding the effects of migration on people and communities left behind. We sought to explore the impacts of rural outmigration on migrant-sending communities in Ethiopia.
Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households
In low- and middle-income countries, poor cooperation between members of smallholder agricultural households may lead to inefficient allocation of productive resources. This study estimates the causal mediating effects of cooperation between spouses on household welfare and public goods provision in Ugandan and Tanzanian monogamous smallholder coffee farming households.
Climate Risk Management in Agriculture (CRMA) Short Course Reference Guide
Policy insights on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) efforts in Ethiopia
Policy Implications (Support the proper sectoral integration of SLM efforts by mainstreaming SLM strategies into national and subnational strategies, plans, and programs; Stimulate public/private funding for SLM interventions and their sustainability, generating multiple environmental and development benefits; Encourage the design and implementation of studies to assess SLM interventions’ cos
Towards a low-emission agrifood sector in the People’s Republic of China: A country profile
The global food system is responsible for 23 – 42% of total net anthropogenic emissions. The food systems of all countries need to be transformed to lower their emissions while producing sufficient, nutritious and healthy food. The Low-Emissions Food Systems (Mitigate+) Initiative aims to offer a comprehensive, evidence-based and holistic approach to reducing agrifood systems emissions.
Integrating APSIM model with machine learning to predict wheat yield spatial distribution
Traditional simulation models are often point based; thus, more research is needed to emphasize spatial simulation, providing decision-makers with fast recommendations. Combining machine learning algorithms with spatial process-based models could be considered an appropriate solution.
Institutionalization of the water-energy-food-environment nexus in the Niger Basin
In less than one year the Niger Basin Authority, an intergovernmental body tasked with the sustainable development of the Niger waters and associated resources, passed the first ever nexus policy in a transboundary river basin, contributing to a true acceleration of change for improved water and associated development in the Niger River Basin.
Tackling conflicts, supporting livelihoods: Convivial conservation in the Campo Ma'an National Park
While most of the literature on park management and nature conservation has focused on the negative implications
for local people’s livelihoods, fewer studies have empirically analysed local people’s strategies in responding to these
policies and renegotiating their position to continue their traditional livelihoods using their traditional knowledge