African Growth & Development Policy Modeling Consortium

The African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium is an initiative aimed at positioning African experts to take a leading role in the study of strategic development questions and the broader agricultural growth and policy debate facing African countries. read more

NEW AGRODEP MEMBERS

AGRODEP welcomes twenty nine new members who joined the Modeling Consortium this month. The new members come from fifteen different countries in Africa. They bring diverse experiences, professional backgrounds, and research interests. The Consortium consists now of eighty four members. The growth will continue as AGRODEP launches new membership rounds each year.

Multi-Country, Multi-Sector CGE Models

AGRODEP provides a platform for sharing existing core economic models dealing with sector, national, and international policy issues as well as long-term projections in areas such as agricultural growth and poverty, trade, Climate change, and others. Multi-country, multi-sector CGE models, like MIRAGE, are one of six categories of simulation and estimation models which AGRODEP provides to its members.

HarvestChoice MAPPR Tool

HarvestChoice is a research initiative, which generates information to help guide strategic investments in agriculture aimed at improving the well-being of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa through more productive and profitable farming. The HarvestChoice MAPPR provides easy access to over one hundred layers of spatially-explicit, agricultural-related data for sub-Saharan Africa.

AGRODEP Video: Using a global static CGE to assess the effects of climate volatility

The video is from a presentation made by Dr. Syud Amer Ahmed at the AGRODEP Workshop on Climate Change held on June 6-7 2011, in Dakar, Senegal. In this presentation, he discusses the role of CGE in climate change research. The PowerPoint presentation is available in the AGRODEP Resource Library.

AGRODEP Country profile: Ghana

The AGRODEP portal provides profiles of African countries. Each country page includes the national flag, links to briefs by various organizations on important topics about the country and links to websites of national organizations and research institutions in the country. In addition, each country page provides links to available economic models, datasets, resources, and profiles of AGRODEP members from that country.

AGRODEP Newsletter No. 10 – April 2012

The April issue of the AGRODEP newsletter is now available on the AGRODEP website. It includes news about recent AGRODEP activities and features three AGRODEP members. The newsletter is published monthly. You can read the April issue and previous issues of the newsletter in the newsletter archives.

14 May, 2012 - 25 May, 2012

2012 AGRODEP training course: GAMS-based Computable General Equilibrium Modeling (basic)

Entebbe, Uganda

The training on building multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) models will be conducted by Veronique Robichaud, a senior resource person at the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). The objective of the training is to develop the participants’ expertise in understanding and building multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) models used to analyze the microeconomic impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies on a national economy.

Omolo, Miriam

Miriam Omolo is one of eight AGRODEP members who will receive sponsorship from the WTO to attend the 15th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis scheduled for June 27-29, 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. Miriam will present her paper on the impact of trade liberalization on poverty in Kenya at the conference. An AGRODEP member since October 2010, Ms. Omolo is a Trade Program Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs. In this position, Miriam examines the trade agreements that Kenya is party to, and researches on their impact on development and poverty reduction. Before joining the Institute of Economic Affairs, Miriam worked for the African Economic Research Consortium. She holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Kenyatta University, an M.A. in Economics from University of Nairobi, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Africa. Her research interests include trade liberalization, poverty, social policy and CGE Modeling.