Despite concerted efforts to develop the fisheries sector in many developing countries, fish demand remains poorly understood due to weak and fragmented domestic markets, particularly in Africa south of the Sahara. An important area that affect the dev... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Public investment choices by local and central governments
A new journal article by Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues. Abstract: This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Farmers’ grain storage and losses in Ethiopia: Measures and associates
While storage losses at the farm are often assumed to be an important contributor to presumed large postharvest losses in developing countries, reliable and representative data on these losses are often lacking. We study farmers’ storage decisions and self-reported storage losses for grains based on two large-scale household surveys conducted in major agricultural areas in […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
The rapid transformation of food supply chains in developing and emerging economies with implications for farmers and consumers
Population growth alone dictates that global food supplies must increase by over 50% in coming decades. Advances in technology offer an array of opportunities to meet this demand, but history shows that these can be fully realised only within an enabling policy environment. Sustaining Global Food Security makes a compelling case that recent technological breakthroughs […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Youth and jobs in rural Africa: Beyond stylized facts
The share of working-age young people in Africa south of the Sahara has risen due to past declines in mortality coupled with high fertility. This “youth bulge” has created a sense of urgency among national governments and the international development community as the prospect of widespread youth unemployment in Africa, and the social instability and […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
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