HER+ Workstream 1.1. aims to gain greater understanding of where and how normative constraints limit food system actor’s capacities to build economic resilience to Climate Change and requires an Evidence Synthesis on learnings. Output 1.1. focuses on addressing the Research Question: What specific gender norms constrain (limit /affect) women AFS ac...
This article analyzes literature on the history of cattle ranching and agricultural innovation adoption in Colombia to understand how livestock production systems have evolved from the 1950s until today. Departing from new scholarship that has questioned the idea that cattle ranching has been only a land-grabbing strategy dominated by few elites, t...
Mbili-Mbili is a cereal-legume intercropping strategy involving three crops with different growth patterns spatially configured within a field. It was developed within the Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Program to get smallholder households out of hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition and pove...
An enabling, evidence-based decision-making framework is critical to support agricultural biotechnology innovation, and to ensure farmers’ access to genetically modified (GM) crops, including orphan crop varieties. A key element, and often a challenge in the decision-making process, involves the balancing of identified potential risks with expected...
Food systems are failing to deliver sufficient, healthy and affordable food. Poor diets are a leading contributor to the global burden of disease while malnutrition is among the leading causes of death (Afshin et al., 2019). The high cost of healthy diets coupled with persistent high levels of income inequality put healthy diets out of reach for ar...
CGIAR centers invest in technological and institutional innovations, partnerships, capacity development, and policy engagement to contribute to Rwanda’s agricultural transformation. This brief is a contribution of various One CGIAR centres in Rwanda. The centres are International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) , International Center for T...
This paper explores the conditions under which the changes leading to the Great Transformation of food systems called upon by a growing number of international experts and development agencies, will (or not) happen. After discussing the meanings of ‘transformation’ in the specific context of food systems, we draw on different elements of political ...
Resumen Para que los programas de extensión logren su objetivo, estos deben ser pertinentes y eficaces, es decir, su diseño e implementación deben ser considerados. Por consiguiente, esta investigación analizó el efecto de factores con respecto al diseño e implementación de un programa de extensión sobre su desempeño, el cual se midió, con base en ...
