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This book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the benefits and costs of using the frontier agriculture technologies to create a circular food economy in Africa, particularly in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV)-affected countries. This book focuses on two types of frontier…

Land is a vital natural resource provisioning for food, water and air for the millions of people who are depending on agriculture. However, land degradation has accelerated during the past two centuries due to combined pressures on land by agricultural and livestock production, urbanisation, and extreme climate events such as droughts. Continued land use change, unsustainable agricultural…

This Think Piece evaluates to what extent, and in which conditions, urban agriculture can enhance the sustainability of urban-rural food systems and promote a circular economy in cities. Since 2007, the International Resource Panel has provided impactful scientific assessments on the status, dynamics and implications of natural resource use in cities and in food systems. This Think Piece…

This publication examines the role of border regions in shaping patterns of violence since the end of the 1990s in North and West Africa. Using the innovative OECD Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator (SCDi), the report looks at the growing relationship between political violence and borderlands at the regional level, by analysing more than 170 000 violent events between January 1997 and June 2021…

Nowadays, despite the harsh climate, the availability of arable land, surface water (Lake Chad, the Niger and Senegal rivers and their tributaries) and groundwater provide the region with good potential for agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sector. Cotton, groundnuts, rice, livestock and fisheries are value chains with high potential for the productive transformation of Sahelian…

The restoration of degraded lands has received increased attention in recent years and many commitments have been made as part of global and regional restoration initiatives. Well-informed policy decisions that support land restoration, require spatially explicit information on restoration potentials to guide the design and implementation of restoration interventions in the context of limited…