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  • Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Driving Force Behind Viable Farmer Organisations

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    Across Africa, member-based farmer organisations (FOs) are widely seen as key drivers of rural development. On the one hand, they represent their members—providing platforms for collective voice, advocacy, and rural representation. On the other, they are expected to operate as viable commercial entities: organising input supply, delivering services, and engaging in collective marketing and storage […]

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  • Learning from the Ground: Closing the Gap Between Community-Centred Land Governance and Adaptive Programming

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    Land governance interventions are increasingly community-centred, recognising that secure land rights depend not only on technical solutions but also on legitimacy, trust, and local ownership. Yet the knowledge generated during implementation often remains scattered or disconnected from policy and decision-making spaces. Participatory knowledge management helps close this gap. By deliberately capturing and reflecting on learning […]

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  • Seeds of Change: How Aid, Development and Peace are Linked in South Sudan

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    South Sudan is a country defined by resilience amid fragility. Farmers face a landscape of repeated floods, mass displacement of people because of recurrent conflicts, and persistent food insecurity. For over 15 years, and at a cost of over $1 billion humanitarian agencies have distributed imported seeds throughout the country as a way to simultaneously […]

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  • Mapping a Healthier Future: How GIS Transforms Global Health

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    How can geography, environment and data improve public health? Mathew’s work in Kerala, India shows how spatial epidemiology can strengthen disease-control strategies. When medical doctor Mathew J. Valamparampil joined a GIS short course at KIT Institute in 2022, he wanted to understand how geography, environment, and data could come together to improve public health strategies. […]

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  • Using Open Source Data for Disaster Preparedness: Lessons from Afghanistan

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    Health facilities are vulnerable to impacts from disasters, such as earthquakes or floods. These disasters can disrupt health facility functionality either through direct impacts, such as building damage, or indirect impacts, such as disruptions to supply chains. In addition, disasters impact local communities, increasing health needs and disrupting health demand through reduced accessibility due to […]

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  • Closing the Living Income Gap for smallholder farmers in Global value chains

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    In global supply chain context, the Living Income (LI) concept is increasingly recognised as a key indicator for understanding poverty. It has grown importance particularly when it comes institutional due diligence, such as the EU Deforestation Regulation and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, and private sector sustainability programmes. Yet, several methodological questions still surround the […]

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  • Cultivating Connections: How B2B Linkages Networks Help Nigeria’s Horticulture Thrive

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    Nigeria holds considerable potential for vegetable production, which can help meet the high domestic demand for fresh produce and improve the country’s food security. Yet, many farmers struggle with low productivity and getting vegetables fast to market in good condition remains a major challenge. Post-harvest losses, mismatches between supply and demand, and reliance on informal […]

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  • It is a matter of perspective

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    This seems to be the universal response when questions are raised about the meaning or implications of an evaluation, a rapid assessment, or policy review. Results may be clear and factual, but once they reach politicians, managers, or decision-makers, evidence is often filtered through their beliefs, values, and priorities, potentially leading to misinterpretation or selective […]

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  • How can Seed Governance Support Peacebuilding?

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    A newly published blog by Oliver Callaghan, Abishkar Subedi from Wageningen University and Research and KIT Institute’s senior advisor Eelco Jacobs, explores the question: can seed governance contribute to peace in fragile and conflict-affected contexts? Written in the context of Action Learning Process 4 (ALP-4) as part of the ISSD Africa programme, the blog unpacks […]

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  • Driving Inclusive Agriculture Transformation: Forget Just Governments and Businesses – Meet the AFIOs!

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    Agri-Food Industry Organizations (AFIOs) have increasingly gained recognition and attention as key actors in fostering inclusive agricultural transformation. Defined as organisations that can bring together farmers’ groups, cooperatives, and agri-food SMEs, AFIOs are often engaged in activities ranging from production and aggregation to processing and trade. With their deep embeddedness in local value chains, their […]

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  • No Woman Left Behind: Listening to Women to Transform Maternal and Newborn Care

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    Today, April 7th, 2025, is World Health Day and marks the launch of a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. Titled Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures, the campaign calls on governments and the global health community to intensify efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths and to prioritize women’s long-term health and well-being. At […]

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  • Framing the Climate Crisis from a Feminist Perspective

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    For International Womxn’s Day we take the opportunity to critically reflect on the climate crisis and its intersection with gender. We use an intersectional feminist approach to highlight the relational nature of power, which dictates how climate crises and gender equality are being framed, and how that affects the solutions proposed to combat climate change. […]

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