IFPRI recently launched its 2019 Global Food Policy Report. The report reviews the major policy developments of 2018 and focuses on rural revitalization as a promising way to achieve the 2030 development agenda and improve rural lives. Policies, institutions, and investments that take advantage of new opportunities and technologies, increase access to basic services, create […]
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 […]
Agriculture and poverty reduction
What is the future of agriculture in Ghana? And what are the implications for poverty reduction? IFPRI Senior Research Fellow James Thurlow addresses these questions in an essay published in the Gate's Foundation Goalkeepers Report. He writes that "if you asked most Ghanaians where the opportunities of the future lie, they would point to Accra, […]
Agriculture Powering African Transformation
By Qondi Moyo Strong sustained economic growth is a key challenge for the African continent. As discussed in a recent IFPRI volume, economic convergence among poor and rich countries has not happened as quickly as was theorized. The African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) convened the 2018 African Transformation Forum (ATF) on 20-21 June 2018 in […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – February 15, 2016
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Ghana, Iran Sign Agreement on Agric, International Cooperation Ghana and Iran deepened their ties Sunday when President John Dramani Mahama and his Iranian counterpart, Dr Hassan Rouhani, discussed a wide range of issues of mutual interest at the start of the Ghanaian leader's state visit to […]