READ: “Our businesses have been considerably affected, but we are trying our best to persevere.” – Informal traders in Tanzania share how COVID-19 impacted their businesses. By Luitfred Kissoly CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) #AfricanFoodSystems plaas.org.za/food-traders-p…

#CultiAF is an IDRC | CRDI and ACIAR partnership that aims to improve food and nutrition security across Eastern and Southern Africa. Learn more on our website 👉 bit.ly/3tTp7a5 ACIAR in Africa

So what do we take home from the scaling up webinar? Dr Anna Okello talks of the overarching themes of sustainability, nutrition, impact communication, "We need to have the research findings to make sense to the end users - the farmers " says Anna

When it comes to #foodsystems, we don't just need to build back after #COVID19—we need transformation. IFPRI's 2021 Global Food Policy Report will provide the roadmap! Don't miss the #GFPR2021 launch on April 13: bit.ly/2021GFPRlaunch CGIAR IFPRI

AFRA, livestock farmers and farm dwellers from uMshwathi Local Municipality are at Besters this morning for an information session on livestock marketing options including auctions. #africanfoodsystem PLAAS CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) Seriti Institute (NPC) SAFL Masifundise Development Trust WWFNedbankGreenTrust

#Foodsystems impact everyone, everywhere. Bringing voices together on what they mean to us is essential to creating positive change. Add your voice to the conversation @foodsystems: Become a hero 👉🏻 un.org/en/food-system… Join the UN #dialogue 👉🏻summitdialogues.org/dialogue/6387/ Amos Laar

Sustainable #foodsystems can enable all #students to have a #healthy and balanced #diet, which is critical to success at #school. Strong #foodsystems and #education go hand-in-hand 🥘🤝📚. Register to the #Dialogue by MEALS4NCDs & Food Environment Research Network meals4ncds.org/en/food-system… Marq World Food Prize Foundation

👉Lancement virtuel du projet « Accélérer les impacts de la recherche climatique du GCRAI pour l’#Afrique » du 17 au 18 mai 2021. IPAR_Think-Tank 🇸🇳 partagera ses résultats sur l’adaptation de l’#agriculture aux #changementsclimatiques du projet AgMIP ipar.sn/Lacement-du-pr…

Here's how Ghana's #COVID19 regulations & fears of infection has affected cross-border food trade - and exposed women traders to risk & losses. A blog by Dzifa Torvikey From our work with Institute of African Studies, Univ. of Ghana PLAAS Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) Dzodzi Tsikata + IDRC | CRDI CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) plaas.org.za/ghanaian-tomat…

#COVID19 & #Africanfoodsystems The South African government’s bias towards the corporate food system during hard lockdown hit small-scale black farmers hard, writes PLAAS PLAAS researcher Nkanyiso Gumede Nkanyiso Gumede IDRC | CRDI CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) plaas.org.za/how-covid-19-r…

OP-ED: The economic ripple effects of Covid-19 lockdown on informal street food traders and their clients: Gloria’s story @MarcWegerif of University of Pretoria writes from our #COVID19 research on #Africanfoodsystems, supported by CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) IDRC | CRDI dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0…

Thanks to Food, Agric. & Nat. Res. Policy Analysis Network & AKADEMIYA2063 for hosting the #Dialogue. It was a pleasure participating & discuss the relevance of healthy diets and nutrition for climate-resilient food systems in Africa, and IDRC | CRDI long-term commitment. IDRC in Eastern and Southern Africa CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) UN Food Systems Coordination Hub

Webinar starting soon! African food systems, gender dynamics and small-scale fisheries (SSF) perspectives With speakers from Ghana, Tanzania and SA, reporting on our joint research #Africanfoodsystems CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) IDRC | CRDI youtube.com/watch?v=gt7jN1…

How did the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress impact on ordinary South Africans, particularly those who are without income? And what are the implications of the termination of this grant? Today's webinar PLAAS Black Sash Covid19 People's Coalition SA CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) plaas.org.za/the-implicatio…

📢Recruitment of individual consultants to conduct the #TARSPro project baseline study Read: bit.ly/2VC9zvD #opportunity CSIR GHANA @SlariInfo CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) IITA AGRIDIGITALE

There's a real risk of food shortages now with broken food supplies. Dairy farmers in KZN have reported that they have had to dump some of the milk because they cant move it. #FoodSystems #SupplyChain #KZNshutdown PLAAS Seriti Institute (NPC) CRFS | SARC (Formerly AFS | ASA) SAFL GenderCCSA

Have you met the #UNFSS #FoodSystemsHero and IIRR Country Director for the Philippines Emily Monville Oro? Her work in nutrition, scaling, family farming, and women’s empowerment is transforming food systems in the best way. Learn more: bit.ly/39wblCd

Protecting our oceans and fully utilizing the fish we catch is vital for #ClimateResilientFoodSystems. Tunde Nutrifish and #FoodSystemsHero Jackson Efitre are working to ensure sustainable fishing and adequate nutrition are our future food system: bit.ly/3i3ixu5 #UNFSS

📢Apply today! Int. Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions is calling for proposals on strengthening #genderequality and social inclusion in #LMICs across the #AMR intervention and implementation research continuum #SubSaharanAfrica #SoutheastAsia 👇

📢 Postulez dès aujourd'hui! Int. Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions lance un appel à proposition sur #ÉgalitéDesGenres et l'inclusion sociale dans #prfm à travers les interventions #RAM et au continuum de la recherche sur la mise en œuvre #Afriquesubsaharienne #AsieduSudEst *Demande en EN seulement* 👇