Re-posted from IFPRI.ORG. (Updated March 19, 2020) The health and safety of our staff and their families, partners and stakeholders, and local communities is of the utmost importance for IFPRI. With the WHO classifying COVID-19 as a very high human health risk IFPRI is instituting the following guidelines: Teleworking Arrangements IFPRI strongly recommends teleworking for all […]
Access to markets, weather risk, and livestock production decisions: Evidence from Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 138, by Kibrom A. Abay, Nathaniel D. Jensen. Abstract: Despite several studies showing the effect of access to markets and weather conditions on crop production, we know quite little on whether and how livestock production systems respond to variation in weather risk and access to markets. In this paper, we study whether and […]
Africa’s Litigated Democracy
Project Syndicate published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellows Bob Baulch and Danielle Resnick. The op-ed discusses Malawi’s litigated general elections and compares it to re-run elections held in other African countries. The authors suggest from their research four lessons for young African democracies in a contested election scenario.
Does rural Africa have a ‘youth problem’?
Blog post by James Thurlow, Valerie Mueller and Julia Wilson. More than 20 million young people aged 15-24 join the workforce in Africa south of the Sahara every year. These young job seekers will need to find work in today’s more competitive global economy, and not everyone thinks they will be successful. Many governments are […]
The world needs higher-quality diets. But is better nutrition affordable for all?
Messages around healthy eating are nothing new—but nowadays we are increasingly told to eat well not just for our own health but also for the planet. This debate was given a boost at the beginning of 2019 with the publication of the EAT-Lancet Commission report on the world's diet, which called for a “great food transformation.” It condemned […]