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 […]
6 Myths about Unconditional Cash Transfers
by Maxwell Young Cash transfers have been shown to reduce poverty, increase food security and build households assets, cultivate human capital, and provide recipients with dignity and autonomy. Research from Bangladesh and other low- and middle-income settings also shows that cash transfers can reduce intimate partner violence. Click to view interactive Despite […]
Supporting MoFA in Market Analysis
GSSP in collaboration with the Statistical Research and Information Department (SRID) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) organized and co-hosted a two-day capacity development workshop on 27-28 February 2019 on agricultural commodity market analysis. The workshop focused on price determination, price transmission effects across markets, measuring and responding to price variability, and analyzing […]
International Women’s Day: Reflecting on progress for women in agriculture
A decade ago, women’s empowerment in agriculture wasn’t even on the agenda. Whether there has been sufficient progress in women’s empowerment in agriculture depends on how one defines “sufficient.” The fact that the question is being asked is itself a sign of progress. A decade ago, women’s empowerment in agriculture wasn’t even on the agenda. […]
Where is the standardized measure of women’s empowerment?
The importance of women's empowerment in agriculture is frequently discussed. However, understanding what empowerment looks like in different contexts is challenging. Previous GSSP research examined the distinct role of women in Ghana's agriculture sector. This blog post by Amber Peterman (UNICEF & University of North Carolina) and Greg Seymour (IFPRI) discusses the importance of and […]
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