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Heating Up
Today the Global Commission on Adaptation releases a report on the imperative for action on adapting to climate change, just before the UN global climate summit on Sept 23. As a research partner for the report IFPRI contributed critical knowledge and insight, and is raising awareness with a video, event, and blog series on the need for more research and investment, better tools and practices, and new approaches to meet this challenge. ( Watch Video | Read Blog | Event Registration)
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Trade Ways: The second annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2019 report tracks trade indicators across the continent and highlights the biggest barriers to improvements, with a special focus this year on economic integration in Eastern and Southern Africa. (Read Report)
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Growing Small: Xinshen Diao and Margaret McMillan examine data from Tanzania’s boom period of 2002 to 2012 and found that policies targeting small and medium enterprises with potential for employment and productivity growth may have larger payoffs than blanket policies offering assistance through business training and access to credit. (Read Article)
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Trike Triumph: Motorized tricycles are helping Ghanaian farmers diversify by saving them substantial amounts of time, according to research from Valerie Mueller and Ian Masias. (Read Article)
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Negative Gains: Jef Leroy, Deanna Olney, and Marie Ruel find a maternal and child health and nutrition program providing food assistance contributes to postpartum weight gain in Guatemala, suggesting a need for objectives and actions that ensure addressing child undernutrition does not inadvertently exacerbate unhealthy weight gain problems. (Read Article)
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Blame it on the Rain: In Ghana and Bangladesh, Carlo Azzarri and Ruth Meinzen-Dick, find precipitation shocks are associated with worsening household hunger, demonstrating that both drought (in dry Ghana) and excessive rainfall (in wet Bangladesh) can impact food security outcomes depending on the context. (Read Article)
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Nutrition Assessment: An independent impact assessment of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health finds impressive levels output, heightened awareness of research and issues, and several examples of impact on policy. (Read Report)
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Keeping Up with Growth
Projections from Adam Komarek and Siwa Msangi show expected changes in Malawi’s population density and crop prices in 2050 could lead household income to fall 21% from 2013 levels, if yield potential and yield gaps do not improve. On the other hand, advances in maize and legume yield potential, as well as efforts to close yield gaps by using livestock manure more efficiently, could increase income by 8%. ( Read More)
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Systems Analysis: Shenggen Fan and Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers make the case for reforming food systems to address climate change, starting with reducing food waste and emissions from livestock. (Read Blog)
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Capturing Advances: Jose Falck-Zepeda and CIMMYT’s Kevin Pixely outline the structural and capacity issues involved in making sure farmers in low- and middle-income countries benefit from the potential upsides of new and emerging genetic engineering technologies. (Read Blog)
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United Front: Coordinating distinct nutrition programs to converge on addressing the key determinants of poor nutrition for the same household, same woman, and same child in the first 1,000 days is a key step to improving nutrition outcomes in India, argue Purnima Menon and colleagues. (Read Blog)
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Rural Connections: China’s success in using e-commerce to connect rural areas to booming urban centers could inform how rural areas in Africa can use online marketing and sales to boost economic activity and development, suggests Kevin Chen. (Read Blog | Watch Video)
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Transformation Stalled
Despite more than 30 years of continuous growth in per capita income and rapid urbanization, Ghana has not been able to industrialize and most of its workers are trapped in traditional or low productivity jobs in agriculture or services. A new OUP book, co-edited by Xinshen Diao, Peter Hazell, Shashidhara Kolavalli, and Danielle Resnick offers empirical analysis and key takeaways on how policymakers and practitioners can harness agriculture’s potential. ( Read Book)
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