May 15, 2019 9:30 am to 11:30 am CEST Location: Oval Conference Room Via Paolo di Dono, 44 00142 Rome, Italy Co-Organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and IFPRI “Digital Tools for Better Rural Investments: The Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer” Building on the previous IFAD-IFPRI-PIM (CGIAR Research Program on Policies, […] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Performance of direct seed marketing pilot program in Ethiopia: Lessons for scaling-up
ESSP Working Paper 132, by Leulsegged Kasa Mekonen, Nicholas Minot, James Warner, and Gashaw Tadesse Abate. Abstract: This study evaluates the impact in the main cropping season of 2015 of a new approach to the distribution of improved seed in Ethiopia, known as Direct Seed Marketing (DSM). Under DSM, seed producers are allowed to sell >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Modeling the Effectiveness of the Lead Farmer Approach in Agricultural Extension Service: Nationally-representative Panel Data Analysis in Malawi
The Lead farmer (LF), model or contact farmer, or farmer-to farmer extension approach has been traditionally part of most extension models for decades. Past LF approaches have been criticized for the selection of richer and progressive farmers as well as for limited productivity and development impact. The revived LF concept contributed to a new batch >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Discussion Paper 1653: Does Providing Agricultural and Nutrition Information to Both Men and Women Improve Household Food Security? Evidence from Malawi
Malawi is among the countries in Africa south of the Sahara where millions of smallholder farmers rely on agriculture to ensure their families’ livelihoods, yet low land productivity, inadequate agricultural inputs, labor limitations, and erratic rains translate into widespread food shortages, hunger, and poverty. Particularly in Malawi, poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition remain significant problems […]
Malawi’s agriculture extension system at a crossroads: Two perspectives
If agriculture is the main lifeline for Malawi, then agriculture extension is the blood, the fuel for the engine. In other words, without a functioning and adequately resourced extension system, agricultural growth has no path forward. In fact, during the extensive consultation process to develop Malawi’s first National Agriculture Policy in 2015, extension services were […]
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