Agriculture & food security

May, 2025

Regenerative agriculture in action: Lessons from TomKat Ranch

Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Professor of Economics, University of Nairobi; Executive Director, Partnership for Economic Policy: shares Insights from TomKat Ranch and the GPF Summit reaffirm the value of research-driven strategies in transforming food systems and empowering communities.

Agriculture & food security

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Effective Climate Services Can Boost Smallholder Farmers’ Resilience in Benin

Farmers in Benin face significant challenges adapting to climate variability, which imp...

A woman cassava farmer stands on her land in Cameroon holding a tool for clearing the land.

Fertiliser subsidies can mitigate the effects of climate change on food security and rural women’s welfare in Cameroon

Cameroon is one of the most food-insecure countries and the effects of climate change a...

Mariam Ntungu tends to her crops

Climate-smart agriculture technologies bridge the gender productivity gap and improve food security in Tanzania

Climate change has severely affected Tanzania's agricultural sector, resulting in food ...

Malawian farmer with CA plot

Examining gender disparities in the adaptation of climate change mitigation strategies at plot level in Malawi

In Malawi, gender disparities in adopting soil erosion control strategies persist, impa...

Woman standing in front of crops, wearing green. Looking into the camera.

Burkina Faso: How to reduce the vulnerability of women farmers to the effects of climate change

As the impacts of climate change continue to worsen, female farmers face escalating cha...

Woman cleaning soybeans

Targeting women and building their capacity to increase soybean production yields in Benin

While the yield and total production of Benin’s soybean sector have improved in recent ...

Elder woman farmer

Facilitating access to agricultural credit for women's empowerment in Burkina Faso

In 2014, more than 93% of Burkina Faso’s women were working in the agricultural sector,...

Women watering crops

Target women farmers’ structural disadvantages to improve rural productivity and food security in Cameroon

Despite Cameroon’s agricultural sector being dominated by women smallholders, their pro...

Person bent over working the land

Boost growth and gender equality in South Africa through rural development investment

The population of South Africa faces the triple challenges of high levels of inequality...

DRC women farmers

Allocating land to women: An asset for the Congolese economy

Gender inequalities are prevalent in the Congolese labour market and hamper sustainable...

Woman farming maize

Improving gender equity in Malawi’s input subsidies

Despite making up more than 70% of the agricultural labour force and being central to p...

Woman trader selling cowpeas in Nigeria

Increasing women’s access to farm land can improve food security, productivity, and welfare in Nigeria

Nigeria’s agricultural production cannot keep up with the country's population growth, ...

Innovating agricultural extension services to increase maize production and reduce food insecurity in Benin

Despite agriculture being the most important sector, food insecurity is a problem facin...

How the rural reform of the Peace Agreement will help rural Colombia recover from decades of conflict

As part of the peace agreement reached in 2016 with the FARC, the Colombian government ...

Can off-farm participation improve agricultural production and farmer welfare in Tanzania and Uganda?

Smallholder farmers in East Africa are turning to off-farm employment to supplement the...

Encouraging non-farm work to increase agricultural commercialization in Ghana

Poverty in Ghana is generally a rural phenomenon and over 90% of rural households depen...

The impact of climate change on food vulnerability in Guatemala

Guatemala relies heavily on agriculture, both for food production and for employment. ...

The effect of input-trade liberalization on farm and non-farm labour participation in rural Vietnam

This study investigates the impact of trade liberalization policy on the farm-nonfarm b...

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