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How to do note: Mainstreaming nutrition into COSOPs and investment projects
October 2019
This How-to-do Note is a practical step by step operational guidance on mainstreaming nutrition in IFAD-supported country strategies and investment projects for use by IFAD staff, consultants and partners.
Research Series Issue 40: Local-economy impacts of cash crop promotion
October 2019
This is the first study to quantify the general equilibrium impacts of introducing a new cash crop into a poor isolated economy, including impacts on environmentally sensitive fishing activities.
The Food Loss Reduction Advantage: Building sustainable food systems
September 2019
Around one third of the food globally produced is estimated to be lost or wasted along the supply chain. These losses affect disproportionally developing countries.
Food loss analysis: causes and solutions - Case studies on maize and rice in the Democratic Republic of Congo
September 2019
The objective of these studies is to estimate the qualitative and quantitative losses, to highlight the critical points of loss and to identify the main causes of the losses.
Food loss analysis: causes and solutions – The Republic of Uganda. Beans, maize, and sunflower studies
September 2019
This report illustrates the food loss assessment studies undertaken along the maize, sunflower and beans supply chains in Uganda in 2015-16 and 2016-17.
Food loss analysis: causes and solutions – Case studies on sorghum, maize and cowpea in Burkina Faso
September 2019
The objective of this study is to estimate the qualitative and quantitative losses along the sorghum, maize and cowpea supply chains, to highlight the critical points of losses and to identify the main causes of the losses.
Research Series Issue 39: Smallholder farming, growth linkages, structural transformation and poverty reduction
September 2019
There are different views around the future of smallholder agriculture and its potential to contribute to the needed transformations of agriculture and rural economies.
Gender-transformative adaptation - From good practice to better policy
September 2019
Gender inequality is one of the most pervasive threats to sustainable development. It has negative impacts on access to, use of and control over a wide range of resources, and on the ability to fulfil human rights.
Policy brief: Investing in nutrition
August 2019
After years of decline in hunger, the number of undernourished people has been on the rise for several years in a row.