The GCRF AFRICAP programme is coming to an end in March 2022. Helen Coskeran who worked as programme support officer from 2018 to 2020 before taking over as programme manager reflects on what she has learnt during this process. AFRICAP is the largest GCRF grant led by the University of Leeds. Even for an institution …
Ensuring people in Africa have the right amounts and the right kinds of food to support healthy lifestyles is increasingly challenging. Climatic and population pressures will only exacerbate these challenges. But with proactive policies to support appropriate agricultural production and international food trade, future food and nutritional security should be attainable without compromising other sustainability …
Ensuring people have the right amounts and the right kinds of food to support healthy lifestyles is a growing challenge across Africa. Richard King explores the role of trade in achieving nutrition security in Africa’s future food systems through iFEED results in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
Climate risks pose unprecedented threats to agricultural food production. While farmers cope by making adjustments to farm management practices and by adopting new Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices, resulting transformations in agricultural landscapes are likely to affect agricultural biodiversity, food system sustainability and resilience. Held on 27 May, Biodiversity, Crop Yields & Climate Change unpacked GCRF …
Pests and crop diseases reduce 20-40% of annual crop yields and sometimes even destroy entire farms. Dr Hemant Tripathi unpacks AFRICAP agroecology research from Tanzania, exploring how identifying management practices might be key to outsmarting pests.