November 1, 2019 by Berber Kramer and Isabel Lambrecht Improving women’s economic empowerment continues to be the focus of a wide range of development projects, ranging from vocational trainings to microcredit to cash and asset transfers. In rural farming areas, such programs face the question of which approach is most effective—improving women’s access to agricultural […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Empowering Africa’s women farmers (Newsday)
Re-post from IFPRI.ORG. Newsday (Zimbabwe) reported on an op-ed by Ruth Meinzen-Dick. The op-ed explains that over 60% of all employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa work in agriculture. Yet the region’s women farmers often reap a meager harvest, not because of inclement weather or poor soil quality, but because of their gender. Republished in The >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Empowering Africa’s women farmers (Newsday)
Re-post from IFPRI.ORG. Newsday (Zimbabwe) reported on an op-ed by Ruth Meinzen-Dick. The op-ed explains that over 60% of all employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa work in agriculture. Yet the region’s women farmers often reap a meager harvest, not because of inclement weather or poor soil quality, but because of their gender. Republished in The >> Read more Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopian Strategy Support Program
Book launch: Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects
October 9, 2019, 12:15 - 01:45 PM EDT 1201 Eye Street NW 12th Floor Conference Center Washington, DC 20005 United States Co-Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation reveals that despite over 30 years of continuous growth >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
This blog, written by Channing Arndt, Shenggen Fan and Nick Austin, is cross-posted from the IFPRI website. The post first appeared on the Thomson-Reuters Foundation News site. On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the European Commission, Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany announced commitments of more than >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
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