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Overview Food environment overview The food environment, which is often defined as the context in which the concerned households lead their lives and choose what different foods play an important role in individual dieatry dieversity (Downs, Ahmed, Fanzo, & Herforth, 2020). For urbanized areas, the food environment depends on exogenous factors such as food availability, […]
Overview Pest and diseases are a major constraint to crop production and a lot of resources are engaged world over in their management. These pests and diseases often eliminate swaths of cropped landscapes altering agrobiodiversity and multiple other ecosystem services. Changes in landscape composition can also be attributed to cultural management practices such as rouging […]
Overview Diet quality is a critical determinant of human health and serves as a key indicator for food system sustainability . However, data on diets are small, scattered, often project-dependent, without a consistent methodology, limiting actionability (Beal et al., 2021). Contextually sensitive technologies exist that can be implemented to generate sustained and high-frequency data flow […]
Overview Gender equity refers to men and women’s fair treatment according to their respective needs, whether equal or different, provided it is equivalent in terms of rights, benefits, obligations, decisions, and opportunities (Pipeline Equity, 2018). In agriculture, it captures the fairness of treatment for men and women according to each gender’s agricultural needs, as well […]
Overview In nature, there exist multiple versions of the CO2 molecule, with slightly different weights. Most of the CO2 we observe in the atmosphere contains 12C, but sometimes we find the heavier version, containing 13C. Scientists can, under controlled conditions, artificially increase atmospheric 13C-CO2 and use it as a molecular marker for photosynthesis. Adding these […]
Overview Micronutrient deficiencies, especially vitamin A deficiency (VAD) remain a public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Africa, the prevalence of VAD significantly exceeds the WHO threshold point of 15%, with countries such as DR Congo (DRC) recording prevalence as high as 64% (IFPRI, 2016). Among the numerous strategies that have been employed in […]
The problem that is being tackled One Acre Fund-TUBURA (1AF) is an agricultural development organization serving 265,000 Rwandan farmers. 1AF provides agricultural inputs and other product using a flexible group credit system, input delivery to rural villages, and ongoing training in agricultural techniques and market access. This bundle of services is designed to help rural [...]
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IITA/ CIALCA is recruiting a Data Analyst (http://www.iita.org/about/jobs/) to be based in Burundi or Rwanda. The position is internationally recruited and requires an MSc-level candidate. [dg order=”DESC” ids=”369″] Apply via this link before 01/06/2018