James Wangu

World Resources Institute

Through a mixed-methods approach, this working paper examines current food loss and waste (FLW) efforts led by FBOs in Rwanda. The paper also looks at the barriers and opportunities to make progress and how FBO action might contribute to national FLW reduction targets. It also provides a set of recommendations to support FBOs in contributing to Rwa...

The Accelerating Circular Economy for Food (ACE4Food) Initiative was convened by WRI Africa in collaboration with Resonance and IKEA Foundation. The co-creation process, and the main co-creation workshop brought together stakeholders interested in transforming circular food systems in the East Africa region. The workshop was designed to co-develop...

Food loss and waste is a major bottleneck to ending hunger and malnutrition in Kenya and other sub-Saharan African countries. Addressing food loss and waste will have benefits beyond eliminating food poverty; it will reduce misuse and pressure on already constrained land, water, and energy resources, and possibly contribute to the climate.

This paper focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 on livelihoods, land access and governance in rural and peri-urban selected areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. Crises are usually expected to be worse for citizens in developing countries since most of their economic activities are in the informal sector, and access to the social protection programs is often...

Following its outbreak in late 2019, the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been reported to have had devastating human health, health systems, and socioeconomic impacts across the globe. Countries in the Global South are known to have been hit harder given the low level of resilience to crises amid high levels of poverty and limited social protect...

Food insecurity remains a critical issue worldwide. The current COVID-19 crisis has exposed how vulnerable the global food systems are and that urgent measures need to be taken, especially in the Global South. Despite increased recognition that women are among the most food insecure yet major contributors to local and global food security over the...

Inclusive business models dominate current development policy and practices aimed at addressing food and nutrition insecurity among smallholder farmers. Through inclusive agribusiness, smallholder food security is presumed to come from increased farm productivity (food availability) and income (food access). Based on recent research, the focus of i...

Smallholder commercialization is central to international development policy and practice. As a result, several arrangements to foster market linkages are being implemented. Especially popular are farmers’ organizations, which are believed to be owned, controlled, and financed by smallholders. As such, their design is considered inclusive given eve...

Inclusive business is regarded as having the potential to improve food security status in the Global South. Despite increased popularity among governments, donors and other development stakeholders, little is known about the approach's impact on smallholder farmer communities. As such, the above-mentioned inclusive business promise on food security...

Food and nutrition security remain at the top of development priorities in low income countries. This is especially the case for smallholder farmers who derive their livelihood from agriculture yet are often the most deprived. Inclusive agribusinesses have been championed as a key strategy to address local constraints that limit smallholders' parti...

Private business is increasingly presented as a leading agent of development in policy, also in the pursuit of developmental goals beyond business, such as food security (SDG2 in particular). It is argued that the private sector is more effective and efficient in raising investment capital and targeting goals than entities of the public sector and...