Policy briefs

This policy brief seeks to inform negotiators where agriculture is situated in the current negotiations and provides some proposals on [...]

When emergency situations continue for years or even decades achieving food security becomes an overwhelming challenge. This policy brief aims [...]

Farming practices, which capture carbon and store it in agricultural soils, offer some of the most promising options for cost effective, [...]

Malian farmers have accumulated knowledge about managing millet and sorghum seed over thousands of years in the Sahel. In response [...]

There are no easy solutions to the ongoing food price crisis. Maize and wheat prices doubled between 2003 and 2008, [...]

Minor millets are a group of annual grasses found mainly in arid and semi-arid regions. They are cultivated on 29.1 [...]

Smallholder producers in marginal and semiarid areas of eastern Kenya have not benefited greatly from research investments made in improvement [...]

During the first three months of 2008, international nominal prices of all major food commodities reached their highest levels in [...]

Access to seed of locally adapted crops - both landraces and improved varieties - is crucial for farmers to maintain [...]

This is a short report of a 'safari' held in conjunction with the International Congress of Nutrition in September 2005, [...]