Generose Nziguheba

TL;DR: Solutions to the nutrient challenges that face global agriculture can be informed by analyses of trajectories of change within, as well as across, agricultural systems.

TL;DR: The use of tithonia biomass as a nutrient source is more profitable with high-value crops such as vegetables than with relatively low-valued maize because of high labor requirements for cutting and carrying the biomass to fields.

TL;DR: The African Green Revolution is starting to gain momentum and there is now optimism about sub-Saharan Africa's ability to rapidly increase its agricultural productivity as discussed by the authors, partly due to some key successes at the local and national levels of policies that support smallholder farmers.

TL;DR: To feed the world without further damaging the planet, Jeffrey Sachs and 24 foodsystem experts call for a global data collection and dissemination network to track the myriad impacts of different farming practices.

TL;DR: The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was initiated in 2005 to implement the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The project is carried out in 14 sites in hunger and poverty hotspots in diverse agroecological zones in sub-Saharan Africa as discussed by the authors.