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European Green Deal — Farm to Fork Strategy for Sustainable Food

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Special Event: Reflections with Ousmane Badiane

Monday, February 24, 2020 - 11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST, 1201 Eye Street NW, 12th Floor Conference Center, Washington, DC 20005, United States.
As Ousmane Badiane leaves IFPRI at the end of February, please join us for this special event reflecting on hi... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Infrastructure, droughts, floods, and food security: Field research in Malawi

This blog is cross posted from the ZEF website and was originally written by Henry Kankwamba, Junior researcher in ZEF’s Department of Economic and Technological Change. The sun scorched us mercilessly as we got out of the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Giving PM-KISAN the multiplier effect

By Deepak Varshney, Anjani Kumar, PK Joshi and Devesh Roy Samman Nidhi, popularly known as PM-KISAN, announced in December 2018 was a tectonic shift in the nature of government support to farmers in India. This scheme was aimed at addressing the liquid... Source: IFPRI South Asia Office

India’s 16-point agriculture plan may falter if it doesn’t focus on incentives

BY Sunil Saroj, Devesh Roy and Mamta Pradhan One of the great examples that economists give on the power of incentives in Econ 101 is this: Towards the end of the 18th century, England began sending convicts to Australia. The government-funded transpor... Source: IFPRI South Asia Office