How can information be harnessed to improve rural service delivery and governance? The articles in the new special issue of the journal World Development on “Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery,” coedited by Katrina Kosec (IFPRI) and Le... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi 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
Effect of changes in population density and crop productivity on farm households in Malawi
A new open access article by Adam M. Komarek and Siwa Msangi, first published on August 16, 2019 in Agricultural Economics, examines the ex-ante farm-household effects of changes in family size, yield potential, and yield gaps using a farm-household simulation model that reflects the economic and biophysical conditions of central Malawi. The study, conducted in >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system
This blog is cross-posted from the IFPRI website and was originally written by Kathleen Rogers and Shenggen Fan. The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is clear from the newly released UN climate change report, which warns that we must rethink how we produce our food—and quickly—to avoid the >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Publication: Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt
Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, James Thurlow, Manfred Wiebelt
This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
