Nigeria’s rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector. Using qualitative focus group discussions and individual interviews with youth in four communities in two Nigerian states, the paper reflects on nuanced differences in perceptions of opportunities, coping mechanisms and overall resilience of youth in rural Nigeria, as well […] Source: Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN)
Exploring the Gendered Impacts of Covid-19 through Phone Surveys using the GCAN Framework
The GCAN Framework is a useful tool for identifying the potential impacts of Covid-19 on rural women. These impacts will be explored through phone surveys in Ghana, Nepal, Nigeria and Senegal. Two recent presentations by GCAN team member, Elizabeth Bryan, highlight these potential impacts, plans for the phone surveys, and potential challenges to reaching women […] Source: Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN)
Federal Government of Nigeria launches National Fertilizer Quality Control Act 2019
The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched the National Fertilizer Quality Control Act 2019 as a vital component of the Agricultural Policy of the present Administration and the bid to reposition the Nigerian economy from oil and gas to agribusines... Source: IFPRI Nigeria Country Office
Africa’s Litigated Democracy
27 February, 2020 Bob Baulch , Danielle Resnick The fact that African opposition parties increasingly turn to the courts when they lose elections indicates that perceptions of judicial independence are improving. But frequent recourse to the courts can undermine trust in the electoral process and indicates that basic democratic mechanisms are not functioning properly. LILONGWE/WASHINGTON, DC […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Policy Seminar: Food System Transformations: National Actions in a Globalized World
Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EST
Co-Organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and IFPRI.
Food systems in developing countries are undergoing a rapid transformation shaped by global ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
