In May 2013, Agriculture for Impact and the Overseas Development Institute launched two Leaping and Learning reports. The first, ‘Leaping & Learning: Linking Smallholders to Markets’ – a comprehensive review of the existing literature on smallholder-centred market-based interventions. The aim of the programme is to provide development partners with access to independent, evidence-based recommendations that set out practical policy… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Africa
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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