Feed the Future (USAID), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE), have come up with a new comprehensive integrated pest management (IPM)-based technical guide to tackle the fall armyworm outbreak across the African continent in the last two years. The fall armyworm has been identified in […]
IFPRI Strategy Refresh 2018-2020
IFPRI’s Strategy Refresh 2018–2020 was recently approved by its Board of Trustees. The refreshed strategy builds on the strong base of work developed under IFPRI’s 2013–2018 strategy, with key changes including: (1) restructuring the six strategic research areas in the 2013–2018 strategy into five strategic research areas; (2) scaling up investments in climate resilience and […]
Obesity: An emerging epidemic in Africa!
IFPRI’s Weekly Media Wrap Up (01/20- 01/16) features an article published in the New York Times, dated January 27, 2018, which finds that obesity rates in sub-Saharan Africa are shooting up faster than elsewhere in the world, and causing a public health crisis.
The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in Ghana
The forthcoming book by Shashi Kolavalli and Marcella Vigneri, The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in Ghana, seeks to understand the success of a sector revived through the restructuring of a parastatal, namely the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), in an era of market liberalization. The book studies the drivers of success of the cocoa […]
Can maize contract farming help to reduce poverty in remote areas of Norther Ghana?
A recent blog by IFPRI researchers, Catherine Ragasa and Isabel Lambrecht, cites that yield gains from the use of improved inputs under contract arrangements are not enough to offset the extra costs of using these improved technologies. Redesigning contracts to reduce farmers' repayment obligations will have limited effects vis-à-vis developing and promoting higher yielding varieties and better technologies, […]
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