Africa south of the Sahara is urbanizing rapidly and its real GDP is growing robustly, trends that affect all levels of the food system. Overall demand for food in East and Southern Africa (ESA) is likely to increase by a factor of 3.3 to 9 times in the next 30 years, depending on economic conditions, […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Agriculture, Conflict and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century
Rachel Bahn and Rami Zurayk, American University of Beirut
Eckart Woertz, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Sciences Po
The volume Crisis and Conflict in Agriculture, published by CABI in September 2018, explores the intersection of agriculture, crisis, and conflict. It considers both over-arching themes, as well as detailed case studies drawn from a range of contexts. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Has the provision of legume seeds subsidies affected dietary diversity? Evidence from FISP
In Malawi, maize is life – the cereal is the main staple with more than 70 percent of all agricultural plots in the country used for maize farming. This strong dependence on maize has led to a poorly diversified agricultural system with limited dietary diversity. The government of Malawi implements a Farm Input Subsidy Program >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Too good to be true? A model for reaching poor farmers and reducing subsidy costs in Ghana
It is no secret that fertilizer subsidies are back in vogue across SSA as the preferred tool for governments trying to boost incomes of poor smallholder farmers by increasing farm production and agricultural productivity. The financial burden of fertilizer subsidies is also widely recognized, exacerbated by the expense of improving the accuracy of targeting, as […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Bridging the Information Gap in Cocoa Production
Cocoa is one of Ghana’s key agricultural products, generating GDP and export revenue. Dr. Christian Andres, a senior research scientist and coordinator at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) and a Post-Doctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, researches sustainable production systems in the tropics: in particular, how to promote sustainable cocoa production systems in West […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
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