Past Events
 Workshop on Modernization of African Agriculture 18 Sep, 2017 - 22 Sep, 2017 Dakar |
Several AGRODEP members have been selected to participate in a workshop on the modernization of African agriculture through the adoption of improved agricultural technologies. The event will be held from September 18-22 in Dakar and will be organized by Institut des Hautes Etudes du Développement Durable (IHEDD), in collaboration with Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), IFPRI, AGRODEP, Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI), and the World Bank. |
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 2016 Training Course - Multi-Country, Multi-Sector General Equilibrium Analysis: MIRAGRODEP-AEZ 13 Dec, 2016 - 15 Dec, 2016 Dakar, Senegal |
The course aims at presenting and training members on the MIRAGRODEP-AEZ model built at IFPRI under the Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI), in partnership with the Center for Development Research (ZEF)-University of Bonn. Applications for this series will be accepted until October 14, 2016. Course outline and description are subject to change. |
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 2016 Training Course - Losses along Food Value Chains 17 Oct, 2016 - 19 Oct, 2016 Accra, Ghana |
AGRODEP, with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), is pleased to announce a training course on Losses Along Food Value Chains as part of the AGRODEP Value Chain Analysis Virtual Hub. Applications for this series will be accepted until August 19, 2016. Course outline and description are subject to change. |
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 2016 Training Course - Tools for Value Chain Analysis 29 Mar, 2016 - 1 Apr, 2016 IFPRI - Dakar |
Overview
AGRODEP, with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), is pleased to announce a new two-part training course on Tools for Value Chain Analysis as part of the AGRODEP Value Chain Analysis Virtual Hub.
The first part of the course, the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), will be taught by Hazel Malapit and the second part of the course, Introduction to the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA), will be taught by Sarah Mayanja. More information about these tools and the training course are provided below. Participants are expected to attend both parts of the course.
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 2016 AGRODEP Impact Evaluation Network Workshop 7 Mar, 2016 - 8 Mar, 2016 IFPRI Headquarters, Washington D.C. |
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 2016 Training Courses 1 Jan, 2016 - 31 Dec, 2016 |
The AGRODEP team is pleased to announce its list of training courses for 2016. |
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 2016 NAIP Clinics 1 Jan, 2016 - 31 Dec, 2016 |
Starting in 2016 and continuing into 2017, clinics have been organized by IFPRI's West and Central Africa Office to provide capacity building support for the appraisal of existing National Agricultural Investment Plans (NAIPs). The goal is to provide these expert African participants with the necessary tools to guide country officials in the design of new NAIPs. |
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Upcoming 2015 Training Courses 7 Dec, 2015 - 31 Dec, 2015 |
The AGRODEP team is pleased to announce its list of training courses for 2015. The courses were selected based on results from the 2015 training course survey; in this survey, members were given a list of proposed courses and asked to select their top three based on which would be most useful for their research and professional development. Upcoming Courses: |
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 2015 Training Course - Applied Microeconometrics 7 Dec, 2015 - 10 Dec, 2015 IFPRI - Dakar |
Overview This course will provide participants an extensive range of up-to-date statistical and econometric techniques to analyze microeconomic data. In particular, a wide variety of microeconometric methods available in Stata will be covered, including linear regression, instrumental-variables estimation, nonlinear models for binary, multinomial, and censored models, estimation of average treatment effects, simulation and bootstrapping, and duration analysis. |
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 2015 Training Course - Evaluation of Public Policies 28 Oct, 2015 - 30 Oct, 2015 IFPRI - Dakar |
OverviewThe aim of the course is to introduce participants to recent methodological developments in the evaluation of public policies. These developments have shown that it is possible to circumvent most conceptual problems related to the evaluation of public policies under relatively innocuous assumptions. The importance of these developments has been underlined by the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden, the two main contributors to the field. |
