Increased capital use in agriculture, including mechanization, is considered an integral process of agricultural transformation. However, mechanization remains low in Sub Sahara Africa (SSA), especially among smallholders, despite increasing pressure from rapidly growing population and increasing labor cost. Supported with funding from Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, IFPRI researchers, Yanyan Liu and Hiroyuki Takeshima, use […]
GSSP hosts seminar on public agricultural expenditure and rural investment strategies
by Karl Pauw Ghana’s low budgetary allocation to agriculture is just one of the reasons why the country was considered “not on track” as measured against the African Union’s African Agricultural Transformation Scorecard (AATS) in 2018. However, some have argued that the quality of agricultural spending is more important than the level of spending. In […]
Principles, practice, and the private sector’s role in malnutrition: Time to review red lines?
by Stuart Gillespie and Nick Nisbett The framing of malnutrition as a global problem that affects us all is long overdue. This view demands more systemic approaches, engaging the whole of society, that align with the universality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This framing also highlights certain challenges, some of which nutrition actors are […]
Employment, diversifying rural livelihoods, and youth: Lessons for Ghana from the 2019 Global Food Policy Report
by Noora-Lisa Aberman and Radhika Lal Throughout much of Africa south of the Sahara, rural households earn their incomes primarily from agriculture and rapid rural population growth is putting pressure on governments to create jobs. In Ghana, agriculture employs over 40% of the population, but average farm productivity remains low, a problem for rural livelihoods […]
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 […]
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