Covers a wide range of issues relevant to agriculture and rural development, extending to climate change, water, land, territorial development, innovation, risk management, commodities, livestock, access to markets, farmers' organisations, etc. and cross-cutting issues.

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VCA4D Knowledge Pills - 9. How can VCA4D support your decision-making process

    Discover how VCA4D provides robust evidence-based data to support sound programming choices and policy dialogue with partners. Ms. Olimpia Orlandoni, VCA4D project manager, explains what services VCA4D has to offer to EUDs. 

    Duration: 10 min

    VCA4D Knowledge Pills - 10. VCA4D for EU policy implementation: the case of EU Gender Action plan (GAP) III

      In this episode, Laura Gualdi, Quality Support Expert and Programme Manager at DG INTPA F3, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, and Margarida Lima de Faria, Senior Researcher on social issues, explore how gender is addressed within the VCA4D framework.

      Duration: 35 min

      VCA4D Knowledge Pills - 11. Beyond inputs subsidies: exploring alternative strategies to boost productivity of smallholder farmers in Africa

        In this episode, Dr Gideon Onumah, Principal Economist in the Food and Markets Department of the Natural Resources Institute and senior VCA4D expert, examines alternative strategies to increase the productivity of smallholder staple crop producers in Africa when input subsidies do not deliver the expected results.

        Duration: 15 min

        VCA4D Knowledge Pills - 12. Macro-economic drivers of VC performances and policy implications: how VCA4D asses it?

          For this session our guest speaker was Frédéric Lançon, Scientific director of VCA4D and senior researcher at CIRAD. Frederic discussed Macro-economic drivers of VC performances and policy implications and how VCA4D asses it.

          Duration: 6 minutes

          VCA4D Knowledge Pills - 13. How to boost working capital finance for Agri-Food systems in low-and middle-income countries?

            This episode of the VCA4D Knowledge Pills podcast explores how to boost working capital finance for agri-food systems in low- and middle-income countries. It features Alexandre Kaufmann, Agribusiness Investment Specialist at the FAO Investment Centre.

            Duration: 17 minutes