In 2012, sub-Saharan African countries spent $37.7 billion on food imports. Rising levels of unemployment, coupled with sustained poverty, continued food and nutrition insecurity, and an unsustainable use of natural resources remain immense challenges. Yet they also offer equally immense opportunities. The latest report from the Montpellier Panel– an eminent group of European and African… Read more »
Reports 
L’INNOVATION AU SERVICE DE L’INTENSIFICATION DURABLE EN AFRIQUE (2013)
Ce rapport du Panel de Montpellier a été lancé en Octobre 2013. Il est co-écrit par Calestous Juma (Université Harvard), Ramadjita Tabo (Forum pour la recherche agricole en Afrique) et Katy Wilson (Agriculture pour l’impact). Pourquoi faut-il innover? La production alimentaire reste, en Afrique, bien en-deçà de son potentiel. Un quart des terres labourables du… Read more »
INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION IN AFRICA (2013)
This Montpellier Panel report was launched at the World Food Prize in October 2013. It is co-authored by Calestous Juma (Harvard University), Ramadjita Tabo (Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa) and Katy Wilson (Agriculture for Impact). Why innovation? Innovation is at the heart of sustainable intensification, helping African smallholder farmers produce more with less impact… Read more »
SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION: A NEW PARADIGM FOR AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2013)
Ag4Impact presented the new report ‘Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture’ on Thursday 18th April 2013 at the Houses of Parliament. Today, the world is searching for solutions to a series of global challenges unprecedented in their scale and complexity: food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, rural poverty, environmental protection all among them. Sub-Saharan… Read more »
WOMEN IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2012)
The Montpellier Panel call for an urgent and transformative focus on the needs and perspectives of women in smallholder agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Women play crucial roles as farmers and businesswomen in smallholder agricultural production, as mothers managing household nutrition, and as innovators and educators. Indeed these roles span across the entire value chain…. Read more »
GROWTH WITH RESILIENCE: OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2012)
The Montpellier Panel presented their new report ‘Growth with Resilience: Opportunities for African Agriculture’ on Wednesday 21st March at the Department for International Development (DFID), London and on Thursday 22nd March at the European Commission, Brussels. The report aims to inform discussions related to key policy events in 2012 and will look broadly at agriculture’s role in supporting… Read more »
SCALING UP NUTRITION (2011)
On 17th May 2011, the Montpellier Panel launched a briefing paper on Scaling Up Nutrition in the UK Parliament. 195 million children are stunted. This is a third of all children in the world who are under five years old. Of these, 90% live in just 36 countries, 21 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa…. Read more »
AFRICA AND EUROPE: PARTNERSHIPS FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (2010)
For the first time in two generations, Africa has a real opportunity to achieve food and nutrition security through agricultural development. There is also an opportunity for Europe to play a unique and significant role, as a partner with African nations, in attaining this goal. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2009 there were 265 million… Read more »
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