The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) of IFPRI and the Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) organized three short term trainings on; Introduction to STATA (with applications to the Dairy sector), Market Policy and Value Chain Analysis (with a focus on Agriculture and Livestock) and Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (with applications to the livestock sector), from June 26-28, >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Too good to be true? A model for reaching poor farmers and reducing subsidy costs in Ghana
It is no secret that fertilizer subsidies are back in vogue across SSA as the preferred tool for governments trying to boost incomes of poor smallholder farmers by increasing farm production and agricultural productivity. The financial burden of fertilizer subsidies is also widely recognized, exacerbated by the expense of improving the accuracy of targeting, as […] Source: IFPRI Ghana