This article is cross-posted from IFPRI's West and Central Africa Office (WCAO) homepage. ACCRA, 4 September 2019 – A new report points to non-tariff barriers, high trading costs and a lack of product diversification as the biggest impediments to Africa’s agricultural trade performance. The Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2019 examines the effectiveness of efforts to increase >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Ethiopia’s Rural-Urban Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges
Bart Minten of IFPRI-ESSP participated in a half day workshop organized by Policy Studies Institute (PSI) in collaboration with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on September 4, 2019. The main aim of the workshop was to share and discuss preliminary results of the report on "New Rural Development Paradigm" pilot study in >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Regional Dialogue – Innovations for Advancing Farmer’s Use of Balanced Nutrient Application in South Asia
CSISA, with additional support from USAID/Nepal funded and CIMMYT led Nepal Seed and Fertilizer Project, is organizing a Regional Dialogue on “Innovations for Advancing Farmers’ Use of Balanced Nutrient Application in South Asia” on September 5, 2019, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Source: IFPRI South Asia Office
Effective convergence: Ensuring all relevant nutrition interventions reach 1000-day households
India’s National Nutrition Mission, or POSHAN Abhiyaan, recognizes the multisectoral nature of the challenge of malnutrition and identifies convergence as one of its key pillars. It looks at convergence between different ministries and departments at the national, state, district, block and village levels. Conventionally, convergence in nutrition has been understood as the provision of a >> Read more Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India
IFPRI EGYPT Seminar: Fertilizer policy in Egypt and options for improvements
Dalia Elsabbagh and Sikandra Kurdi - IFPRI Egypt
The seminar aimed to discuss the effects of Egypt’s fertilizer subsidies system in Egypt and its impact on the agriculture output in terms of quantities and nutrition, as well as their medium- and long-term effect on the land productivity. In light of the government of Egypt’s effort to move from general subsidies to more targeted support for the people, for example in the area of energy subsidies and social protection, the seminar also focused on discussing alternative policy options which would address fertilizer overuse. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
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