[HTML][HTML] Reversing years for global food security: A review of the food security situation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

AH Wudil, M Usman, J Rosak-Szyrocka, L Pilař… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
All around the world, inequalities persist in the complex web of social, economic, and
ecological factors that mediate food security outcomes at different human and institutional …

Transformation of seafood side-streams and residuals into valuable products

SA Siddiqui, H Schulte, D Pleissner, S Schönfelder… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Seafood processing creates enormous amounts of side-streams. This review deals with the
use of seafood side-streams for transformation into valuable products and identifies suitable …

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children …

NH Phelps, RK Singleton, B Zhou, RA Heap, A Mishra… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes
throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of …

Does crop diversification lead to climate-related resilience? Improving the theory through insights on practice

R Vernooy - Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, CGIAR researchers have investigated the effectiveness of using
agrobiodiversity, and more particularly crop and crop varietal diversity, as an adaptive …

[HTML][HTML] Does organic farming jeopardize food security of farm households in Benin?

GBD Aïhounton, A Henningsen - Food Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The prevalence of organic farming and other sustainability standards is increasing around
the globe. While effects of organic farming on productivity, income, and poverty alleviation …

Farm diversification strategies, dietary diversity and farm size: Results from a cross-country sample in South and Southeast Asia

F Tacconi, K Waha, JJ Ojeda, P Leith, C Mohammed… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract South and Southeast Asia host almost half of the world's undernourished people.
Food and agricultural systems in these regions are highly dependent on the production and …

Perceived effects of COVID-19 restrictions on smallholder farmers: Evidence from seven lower-and middle-income countries

J Hammond, K Siegal, D Milner, E Elimu, T Vail… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global disruption and continues
to wreak havoc. Dire predictions were made about the risks to smallholder farmers in lower …

The impact of conflict on food security: evidence from household data in Ethiopia and Malawi

J Muriuki, D Hudson, S Fuad - Agriculture & Food Security, 2023 - Springer
Background Violent conflicts threaten food security and household welfare in sub-Saharan
Africa. While a more robust understanding of the causal relationship between food security …

Genome-wide association studies of grain yield and quality traits under optimum and low-nitrogen stress in tropical maize (Zea mays L.)

N Ndlovu, C Spillane, PC McKeown, JE Cairns… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Key message Genome-wide association study (GWAS) demonstrated that multiple genomic
regions influence grain quality traits under nitrogen-starved soils. Using genomic prediction …

A shift from cattle to camel and goat farming can sustain milk production with lower inputs and emissions in north sub-Saharan Africa's drylands

J Rahimi, E Fillol, JY Mutua, G Cinardi, TP Robinson… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change is increasingly putting milk production from cattle-based dairy systems in
north sub-Saharan Africa (NSSA) under stress, threatening livelihoods and food security …