Malawi's agricultural sector needs to be less subsistence-focused, more market-centered, and more concentrated and specialized to reliably feed all Malawians. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
NEW PUBLICATION: Land scarcity and input intensification in smallholder irrigated agriculture in Egypt
By Kibrom A. Abay, Hoda El-Enbaby, Lina Abdelfattah, and Clemens Breisinger
Increasing population pressure and population density in many African countries are inducing land scarcity and land constraints. These are expected to trigger various respon... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
NEW PUBLICATION: Land scarcity impedes sustainable input intensification in smallholder irrigated agriculture: Evidence from Egypt
By Kibrom A. Abay, Hoda El-Enbaby, Lina Abdelfattah, and Clemens Breisinger
In this paper, we investigate the implication of land scarcity on agricultural intensification and the relevance of the Boserup hypothesis in the context of Egypt, where agr... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Publication: Characteristics of smallholder farm households in Upper Egypt: Implications for nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions
Hoda El-Enbaby, Olivier Ecker, José Luis Figueroa, Jef L. Leroy, and Clemens Breisinger
This paper characterizes smallholder farm households in Upper Egypt based on data from a comprehensive farm household survey. The results from the descriptive analysis in combination with findings from the global literature provide recommendations on how agricultural projects can be leveraged for improving nutrition. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
A global rural crisis: Rural revitalization is the solution
By Achim Steiner and Shenggen Fan Rural areas are in crisis. Rural residents make up 45 percent of the world’s population but bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, malnutrition, and poor quality of life. The global rural poverty rate is 17 percent (compared to 7 percent in urban areas). Rural people comprise 70 percent of […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
