With more than 193 million people experiencing acute food insecurity, there is great urgency to help the global community understand how climate smart agriculture relates to and supports food security.
The Resilience, Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) Award
, Mercy Corps
Starting in 2020, Mercy Corps piloted measurement and analysis of market systems resilience (MSR), drawing on a framework developed by USAID, in four fragile and conflict-affected contexts. This brief presents the...
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
While the global crises will cause only a modest slowdown in Kenya’s economic growth, poverty and food insecurity are likely to be more pronounced in rural areas, therefore driving inequality.
Uganda experiences recurrent weather, environmental and socioeconomic shocks and stressors, including drought, erratic rainfall, floods, landslides, disease, crop pests, unemployment and intercommunal conflicts. As a...
Zimbabwe’s development progress depends on the productivity of its natural resources, principally land, water and wildlife. Yet Zimbabwe’s food, forests and wildlife are in steep decline.
USAID’s assistance in South Sudan consists mostly of humanitarian aid and some long-term development programs in economic growth, education, democracy and governance and health.
Poverty and economic insecurity in Nigeria is compounded by endemic corruption, unresponsive governance, violent extremism, intergroup conflict, displacement and climate issues.
The Sahel today is marked by food insecurity, persistent poverty, corrupt governance, high population growth rates and recurrent weather shocks made worse by climate change that often drive vulnerable communities...
In Malawi, risk and exposure to shocks and stresses are driven by a confluence of over-dependence on rainfed maize and tobacco, unmodernized agriculture sector, dependence on biomass for energy resulting in...
Haiti faces multivariate recurring shocks and stresses, including natural disasters, political instability and extreme weather, making it difficult for the country to sustain long- term development gains.
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