Publications
Book
Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024
Book Chapter
Impact of climate change on trade in Africa
Book Chapter
Overview and Recent Challenges [In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024]
Blogs
L’Afrique de l’Ouest est confrontée à des impacts compliqués du conflit Russie-Ukraine sur la sécurité alimentaire
Rising global market prices pose the most serious threat.
West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Rising global market prices pose the most serious threat.
Walk the Talk: Nigeria’s import prohibitions, smuggling, and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement
Nigeria has continues its long history of protectionism—despite committing itself to a continent-wide free trade zone.
Events
A Look at Global Rice Markets: Export Restrictions, El Niño, and Price Controls
Virtual IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series: October 18, 2023 at 9:00am-10:30am EDT. At an August meeting of ASEAN countries, leaders committed to maintain an unimpeded flow of agricultural products and refrain from using “unjustified” trade barriers. However, these commitments may be undermined by a strengthening El Niño in the Pacific, which threatens to cut the rice production of key Asian suppliers and push prices sharply higher. This webinar will provide a brief update on the global rice situation.
Virtual Event – Informal African trade: The hidden world of food flows
What are the emerging trends in agricultural informal cross-border trade, the barriers to participating in formal customs procedures and trade, and the role of female informal traders?
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Virtual Event – COVID-19, global markets and African agricultural trade: Impacts on growth and food security
The economic shocks of COVID-19 on global markets have left the African continent, along with its producers and consumers, distinctly vulnerable. This seminar will examine how changes in global food trade since the pandemic have impacted African food systems, regional supply chains and food access. Presenters will discuss the potential long-term risks of trade disruptions […]
Research
Projects
- Family Farming, Regional Markets and Cross-Border Trade Corridors in the Sahel (FARM-TRAC)
- Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger
- Agricultural Transformation and Policy: What are the policy priorities?
- Africa Regional Integration and the AfCFTA
- Measuring cross border trade in Africa
- Trade Tensions
- Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI)