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This manual is intended to support trainers who are helping Farmer Organisations (FOs) and their members in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve the quality of their grain. In so doing, it is expected that the income earning opportunities and the food security of the learners’
households will be increased. Learning how to supply quality grain to WFP and other buyers is a corner stone of the capacity building activities provided by the Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative. P4P is a partnership of many actors and stakeholders spanning the sectors of smallholder development, market development and food assistance brought together around the WFP food demand platform. By developing the capacity to sell to an institutional buyer such as WFP, smallholder farmers through organizations can acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence needed for engaging with formal markets.
To date, PHHS training for P4P has not been standardised across countries, and only limited opportunity has been taken to capitalise on best practice for both the method of delivery or for training material content. For this reason, WFP had a vision of a core training package
that could be used across P4P countries but would at the same time retain sufficient flexibility to cater for local variations, local languages and the specific needs of different FOs.

This manual aims to provide clear, actionable information on the most important pests and diseases that affect the major food crops grown by smallholder farmers in Africa

A 20-page guide that provides details of nutrient management practices necessary for sorghum-millet production. It focuses on fertilizer and organic matter use and good agricultural practices such as intercropping.

The maize-legume system cropping guide is a practical 88 manual focusing on good agricultural practices for maize-legume production that promote integrated soil fertility management.

ASHC handbook for ISFM is a 156 page that provides a detailed explanation of ISFM principles as applied in a number of African countries. Commissioned by ASHC and produced by technical advisory group members.

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners developed a website presenting the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to food security and sustainable development. The website aims to help practitioners, researchers and decision-makers working with or interested in CSA. The site helps you get started and guide you on the ground, connecting you with all the resources you need to dig deeper. For countries following up on their commitments under the Paris Agreement, CSA Guide is a useful tool to set up mitigation and adaptation initiatives in agriculture.

The report is one in a 13-part series that translates the IPCC assessments for business leaders and also part of BSR's Business in a Climate-Constrained World initiative. The report also notes specific ways climate change will affect the agriculture industry—including on food security, crop yields, developing countries, water security, price volatility, food quality, pests and disease, livestock, labor, and the supply chain—and it offers supply- and demand-side opportunities for managing risk and building resilience to climate change.

This Playbook aims to help experts, advocates and educators to be more effective in talking with groups about climate change and promoting interactive learning on the topic. For this purpose, twenty-two interactive games are offered and described to help increase the effect of workshops, speeches and conversations on the topic. 

Practitioners who use these games can enhance the appeal and the effectiveness of their verbal presentations about climate change and climate policy, thus contributing to their efforts to help citizens perceive climate change, diagnose its causes, anticipate its future consequences, and effect constructive change.

Weather is a key factor in agricultural productivity, despite many technological advances. Climate change, however, is leading to changes in global and regional climates and more extreme weather events which have severe impacts on the growth of key crops such as rice, maize, millet, sorghum, and coffee as well as on socio-economic activities associated with agriculture and distribution of food.
In view of this, the impact chain approach analyses and highlights the consequences induced by climate stimuli (see climate stimuli chart). In a second step, it shows the related biophysical and socio-economic impacts and identifies key adaptation measures to counteract the relevant stimuli (see impact chain).

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the most up-to-date, comprehensive and relevant analysis of our changing climate.

This document is the rst in a series that will synthesize the most pertinent ndings of AR5 for specic economicand business sectors. It serves as a basic primer explainingthe process of compiling AR5 and its signicance.

This summary, the rst in a series, was borne of the belief that businesses could make more use of AR5, which is long and highly technical, if it were distilled into accurate,accessible, timely, relevant and readable summaries.

Other business-orientated summaries will be released as the scientic information upon which they are basedbecomes publically available, expected late 2013 and 2014.