Date of event: April 21, 2020 - 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm EDT Register Governments spend over $US 700 billion dollars per year on agricultural support measures such as subsidies, border price distortions and investments in raising productivity. Agriculture and land use change contribute close to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions […]
Strengthening poverty analysis to support innovative solutions
Poverty and hunger are on the rise globally despite economic progress. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), designed a program to consider innovative approaches to achieving the first two of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ending hunger and poverty. This a […]
IFPRI Board Announces New Director General
The Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) announced today the appointment of Johan “Jo” Swinnen as the institute’s next Director General. Swinnen will begin his tenure on January 7, 2020, succeeding the current Director General, Shenggen Fan, who is completing his term. “Jo brings to IFPRI academic rigor, strategic vision, experience […]
Exploring the determinants and constraints to mechanization
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 […]
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