Publications
Report
Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Governance (WEAGov) technical workshop: India pilot study
Report
Designing gender- and youth-responsive agronomic solutions: accelerating the use of digital tools for delivering agronomic advice through a public-private partnership extension model in Rwanda
Working Paper
Farmer groups as ICT Hubs: Findings from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Malawi
Blogs
Workshop: Applying the Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) tool to support gender-responsive policy innovation across Africa
Collaborating to make food systems more inclusive.
Enhancing farm productivity and rural livelihoods through ICT interventions in Malawi
New opportunities as mobile phone use grows in farming areas.
WEAGov: A new conceptual framework to assess women’s empowerment in agricultural governance
Developing a tool to assess gender and policymaking.
Events
ICTforAg 2024: Localizing impact
Event: May 28, 2024 – 9:00am to 5:00pm EDT. This event explores the localization of ICT, responsible AI in agriculture, the potential for AI to increase farm profitability, empowering citizen science, and harnessing digital solutions for sustainable and regenerative farming practices.
From Research to Impact: Towards just and Resilient Agri-food Systems
Conference: October 09, 2023 – 9:00 AM to October 12, 2023 – 6:00 PM IST. IFPRI is participating in the 2023 annual CGIAR gender research conference will take place in New Delhi, India.
UNFSS Independent Dialogue: The Critical Role of Agricultural Extension in Advancing the 2030 Agenda: Lessons from the Field and Empirical Evidence
Virtual Event: AUG 6, 2021 – 07:00 AM to 09:30 AM EDT. The objective of this dialogue is to come to a common understanding of how extension can contribute to the SDGs and adapt to future needs.
News
Aquaculture experts train Ghanaian small fish farm operators (Aquaculture Magazine)
Aquaculture Magazine published an article on how fish farmers in Ghana are being trained to improve the adoption of good aquaculture practices, including the use of high-quality fingerlings. “The training manuals and extension materials used in the training sessions were carefully crafted by 15 experts with diverse background and experience in aquaculture production including those in the Marine […]
Bright Yeboah: Ghana’s Aquaculture industry set on a recovery path after a double blow (My Joy Online)
My Joy (Ghana) published an article that after a decade of tremendous growth in production, Ghana’s tilapia farmers have been hit with severe setbacks in the last two years and those setbacks are due to disease. Poor biosecurity measures are exposing most farms to this tragedy. Senior Research Fellow and project lead on the TiSeed, Catherine Ragasa says, “a lot […]
Project to Improve Tilapia Seed Launched in Accra
Washington, D.C.: Over the past decade, Ghana’s tilapia farming has experienced tremendous growth in production, contributing to improved incomes for the industry and animal protein for consumers (according to a 2018 study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)). But loses of over 100 tonnes of cage-farmed fish in the Lake Volta region in […]