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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Fousseini Traore is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. He has conducted research on agricultural trade, global cotton subsidies, and access to energy in rural areas in Africa. He is also involved in capacity building efforts in higher education in Africa through expatriate nationals. Prior to joining IFPRI, Fousseini was a Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. He received a PhD in Agricultural Economics from CERDI, University of Clermont Ferrand, France, as well as a double MA in Development Economics and in Projects Appraisal from the University of Clermont-Ferrand.

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Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024

2024Odjo, Sunday; Traoré, Fousseini; Zaki, Chahir
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Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024

The 2024 AATM investigates critical issues related to African agricultural trade. As in previous editions of the report, we have developed a database that corrects discrepancies in trade flow values, as reported by importing and exporting countries, as the basis for analyzing Africa’s international, domestic, and regional economic community (REC) trade. Given the pressing need to address climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions, this year’s AATM takes an in-depth look at the relationship between climate change, water use, and emissions and African agricultural trade.

Year published

2024

Authors

Odjo, Sunday; Traoré, Fousseini; Zaki, Chahir

Citation

Odjo, Sunday, ed.; Traoré, Fousseini, ed.; and Zaki, Chahir, ed. 2024. Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024. Kigali and Washington, DC: AKADEMIYA2063 and International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.54067/9781737916499

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Africa; Agricultural Trade; Imports; Exports; Climate Change; Policies; Fertilizers; Tariffs; Manufacturing; Agriculture; Water; Natural Resources Management

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Impact of climate change on trade in Africa

2024Mamboundou, Pierre; Traoré, Fousseini; Zaki, Chahir
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Impact of climate change on trade in Africa

The literature on the complex relationship between trade and climate change is rich. While trade can affect climate change through dirty production techniques or carbon emissions due to transport (Brenton and Chemutai 2021), climate change can affect trade through its effect on agricultural productivity (Ben Zaied and Cheikh 2015; Chandio et al. 2020), production, and thus countries’ specialization (Gouel and Laborde 2021), primarily due to high temperatures and water stress (Hamududu and Ngoma 2020). As Africa is a net importer of agricultural products, the consequence is that climate change will likely affect food security in the medium and long term. Against this background, the objective of this chapter is twofold. First, we examine the extent to which African countries are exposed to climate change relative to other regions of the world. Second, we show how Africa’s comparative advantages can be altered with rising temperatures and water stress. Our main findings show that climate change effects in Africa are more pronounced than in other regions, reflected in the increase in extreme weather events associated with rising temperatures and greater variability in precipitation. These developments are likely to increase the number of food insecure people. Furthermore, we identify how climate change can affect African countries’ specialization based on products’ sensitivity to changes in temperature and their dependence on water. We show that several crops (such as leguminous vegetables, edible nuts and coconuts, groundnuts, oilseeds, and oleaginous fruits) will be affected by climate change. Other crops’ production may be less affected, but their future expansion may be limited by climate change–related factors.

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2024

Authors

Mamboundou, Pierre; Traoré, Fousseini; Zaki, Chahir

Citation

Mamboundou, Pierre; Traoré, Fousseini; and Zaki, Chahir. 2024. Impact of climate change on trade in Africa. In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024, Odjo, Sunday; Traoré, Fousseini; and Zaki, Chahir, eds. Chapter 5. Kigali and Washington, DC: AKADEMIYA2063 and International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151906

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Africa; Trade; Climate Change; Agricultural Productivity; Food Security; Water Scarcity; Extreme Weather Events

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Overview and Recent Challenges [In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024]

2024Odjo, Sunday; Zaki, Chahir; Traoré, Fousseini; Hebebrand, Charlotte
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Overview and Recent Challenges [In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024]

The Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) is an annual flagship publication of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and AKADEMIYA2063. This seventh edition provides an overview of short- and long-term trends and drivers behind Africa’s global trade, intra-African trade, and trade within Africa’s regional economic communities (RECs), with a focus on the nexus of trade and climate change. The six chapters of this 2024 AATM report are as follows. This first chapter offers an overview of the food security concerns in African countries in the wake of the global crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine war, and the global resurgence of protectionist policies. It examines trade through a food security lens, including availability, utilization, accessibility, and stability of food supplies, as well as the effects of tariffs, nontariff measures (NTMs), and deep trade agreements on food security in Africa. Special attention is paid to fertilizers, given the importance of these inputs for agricultural productivity and food security. As a result of Africa’s heavy dependence on fertilizer imports, farmers, and particularly smallholders, were severely challenged in the recent crisis when spikes in international fertilizer prices were compounded by high rates of domestic inflation.

Year published

2024

Authors

Odjo, Sunday; Zaki, Chahir; Traoré, Fousseini; Hebebrand, Charlotte

Citation

Odjo, Sunday; Traoré, Fousseini; Zaki, Chahir; and Hebebrand, Charlotte. 2024. Overview and Recent Challenges. In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024 , Odjo, Sunday, ed.; Traoré, Fousseini, ed.; and Zaki, Chahir, ed. Chapter 1. Kigali and Washington, DC: AKADEMIYA2063 and International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151909

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Africa; Food Security; Policies; Trade; Tariffs; Fertilizers; Agricultural Production

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English

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Blogs

L'Afrique de l'Ouest est confrontée à des impacts compliqués du conflit Russie-Ukraine sur la sécurité alimentaire
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April 01, 2022

L’Afrique de l’Ouest est confrontée à des impacts compliqués du conflit Russie-Ukraine sur la sécurité alimentaire

By Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, and Fousseini Traoré

Rising global market prices pose the most serious threat.

West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict
IFPRI Blog
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April 01, 2022

West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict

By Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, and Fousseini Traoré

Rising global market prices pose the most serious threat.

Walk the Talk: Nigeria’s import prohibitions, smuggling, and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement
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December 20, 2019

Walk the Talk: Nigeria’s import prohibitions, smuggling, and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement

By Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, Fousseini Traoré, and Swati Malhotra

Nigeria has continues its long history of protectionism—despite committing itself to a continent-wide free trade zone.

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Events

A Look at Global Rice Markets: Export Restrictions, El Niño, and Price Controls
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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October 18, 2023, 9:00 – 10:30 am

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
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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December 3, 2020, 9:30 – 10:45 am

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
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September 17, 2020, 9:30 – 11:00 am

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 […]

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