AGRODEP Blog
posted by bdimaranan on 3 years 5 months ago (0 comments)
With support from the USAID, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will assess the interaction and compatibility of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) with the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). This call for applications is for AGRODEP members who are interested and available to work on this project.
Objectives
The objective of the project is to analyze the achievements…
posted by bdimaranan on 3 years 5 months ago (0 comments)
This webinar is co-organized by IFPRI, REPOA
and the Food Security Portal.
When: October 27, 2020
3:00 – 4:30pm EAT (8:00 – 9:30am EST)
Register here.
The International Labour Organization estimates that approximately 80% of workers in Africa South of the Sahara are employed in the informal economy. Beyond providing employment, particularly to society’s more vulnerable or…
posted by bdimaranan on 3 years 6 months ago (0 comments)
This virtual policy dialogue will be presented by IFPRI, ASARECA, the EC, the CAADP-X4 project, and IFAD.
When: October 7, 2020
3:00pm EAT (Addis Ababa)
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a global health crisis causing deep disruptions to and widespread impacts on food systems, social systems, and economic development. The scale of the pandemic’s expected impact on poverty, food security, nutrition, and…
posted by bdimaranan on 3 years 6 months ago (1 comments)
In 2019, 135 million people in 55 countries faced crisis level acute food insecurity, driven primarily by conflict, weather extremes, and economic shocks, according to the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises. With hunger on the rise, there is a clear need to improve early warning systems and other tools to prevent food crises. One way to do this is to improve and increase the use of real-time…
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THURSDAY, September 24, 2020
13:00 - 15:30 GMT
08:00 - 10:30 US CT
09:00 - 11:30 US ET
15:00 - 17:30 CET/CAT
Register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xcFmJumTSwqIz3qxEvFZnw
After decades of decline and stagnation, African economies turned a corner as economic growth picked up considerably since the early 2000s. The choices of policymakers had much to do with the dramatic changes observed in Africa…
posted by bdimaranan on 3 years 7 months ago (1 comments)
Akademiya2063 will host a COVID-19 responses webinar on Food Staple Market Dynamics: Tracking local food prices during the pandemic.
The webinar will be presented by Dr Sunday Odjo, Deputy Director, Knowledge Systems, AKADEMIYA2063 and moderated by Dr Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson, AKADEMIYA2063.
It will be held on Thursday, August 27 at 2:00 - 3:30pm UTC (GMT)
Kindly find the link to register at https://…
posted by pecos4eva on 3 years 7 months ago (0 comments)
Introduction
After more than a decade of global growth, worldwide, including within the African continent, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that began to spread in the first quarter of 2020 rampantly, brought most countries around the world to a standstill. Many countries worldwide are experiencing aggravated socioeconomic shocks that are aggravated by COVID-19. Globally, the health crisis has further exacerbated food insecurity,…
posted by bdimaranan on 3 years 8 months ago (0 comments)
Special Issue “Social Justice in Agricultural and Environmental Economics”
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (ARER)
Guest editors: Angelino Viceisza (Spelman College and NBER) and Miesha Williams (Morehouse College)
Description
This special issue contributes to economic scholarship on issues of social justice related to agriculture, food, natural resources, rural communities, development, and the environment.…
posted by bdimaranan on 3 years 8 months ago (0 comments)
The Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI) project researchers seek to identify an AGRODEP colleague from Nigeria who can work on livestock analysis as part of the project on "Trends and investment opportunities for livestock feed and fodder in Africa." The study will involve:
Assessment of the availability and quality of feed in the African livestock sector as well as bottlenecks to a supply of…
posted by obayeluelijah on 3 years 9 months ago (1 comments)
I am pleased to announce the release of the new book ‘Developing Sustainable Food Systems, Policies, and Securities’. The book supports the development of sustainable food systems, policy options, and securities by various countries in order to successfully maintain sustainable food production systems.
Details are online at: https://www.igi-global.com/book/developing-sustainable-food-systems-policies/237013#table-of-contents