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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Improving small-scale producers’ resilience and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food systems.

Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to the world’s food systems, from agricultural production,  ecosystems and biodiversity that underpin it, and across agri-food value chains, from processing, storage, transport, retailing and consumption of food. These growing climate risks impact food security, nutrition, and human health, as well as equity and livelihoods, hitting poor food producers and consumers the hardest. At the same time, food systems are generating one-third of human-caused greenhouse gases. Solutions must address this complex nexus of problems.

IFPRI has a three-pronged approach to address these challenges, working with partners around the world to identify, assess, and improve technical, policy, institutional, and governance responses that can drive transformative change. Our research focuses on improving food systems resilience to climate change, from field to fork, to reduce poverty and improve nutrition under climate change, while reducing the climate footprint of food systems. Research expertise includes foresight and modeling, analytical frameworks and metrics, natural resource governance, and evaluation of policies and innovations for production systems, markets and value chains, and trade and investment.  

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For 5 decades, IFPRI’s research has informed policy decisions and investments made by governments, development organizations, and other partners around the world. The Institute’s impact assessment efforts have illuminated the economic, social, and environmental benefits.

US$1B

estimated economic returns on just a few of IFPRI’s research efforts

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years of measuring institutional impact

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million/people indirectly benefitting from IFPRI

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Women’s leadership in climate-resilient agrifood systems: Defining a future research agenda

2024Morgan, Miranda Yeen; Bryan, Elizabeth; Elias, Marlène
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Women’s leadership in climate-resilient agrifood systems: Defining a future research agenda

Women’s leadership is increasingly considered critical for achieving climate-resilient agrifood systems. Numerous initiatives and policies highlight the business case for women’s leadership to deliver a range of positive social, economic and environmental outcomes. In this Perspective, we examine the business case, finding uneven evidence linking women’s leadership to increased resilience to climate change. We problematize the ways women’s leadership is typically understood in this area and argue that, despite the value and utility of understanding the pathways through which women’s leadership can strengthen climate-resilient agrifood systems, support for increasing women’s leadership should not be contingent on proving the business case or its instrumental value. Rather, increasing the leadership of women in all their diversity in climate action is a moral imperative and non-negotiable due to women’s human right to have meaningful influence in the decisions that affect their lives. Finally, we propose ways to reframe the debate on women’s leadership in climate and agrifood systems and suggest priorities for future research in this area.

Year published

2024

Authors

Morgan, Miranda Yeen; Bryan, Elizabeth; Elias, Marlène

Citation

Morgan, Miranda Yeen; Bryan, Elizabeth; and Elias, Marlène. 2024. Women’s leadership in climate-resilient agrifood systems: Defining a future research agenda. Environmental Research: Climate 3(2): 023001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad3fdd

Keywords

Gender; Women’s Participation; Climate Resilience; Agrifood Systems; Leadership; Business Management

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad3fdd Source record

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Gender Equality

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Journal Article

Journal Article

Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region

2024Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr.; Salama, Yousra; Abay, Kibrom A.; Abdelaziz, Fatma; Zaccari, Claudia; Akramkhanov, Akmal; Menza, Gianpiero; Anarbekov, Oyture
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Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region

There is growing optimism about the potential of digital innovations to support climate action and transform agricultural markets. We review and characterize the landscape of digital innovations in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. We highlight major success stories associated with the potential of digital innovations to facilitate rural market transformation and support climate action, including adaptation and mitigation. Our desk and landscape review identifies various digital innovations used in Egypt, Morocco, and Uzbekistan. We then create a typology of digital innovations based on seven broad service categorizations: weather and climate; agricultural finance; energy and early warning systems; data and crowdsourcing; market information and market place; extension and advisory information; and supply chain coordination. Three technical and validation workshops supplement this review. Our review shows that digital innovations have the potential to build resilience to climate change and increase market access, but their adoption remains low and varying across contexts. Significant heterogeneity and differences exist across these countries, possibly due to different institutional and regulatory frameworks that guide demand and capacity. We identify several supply and demand-side constraints facing the digital ecosystem in the region. There is the existence of a significant digital divide fueled by gender, literacy gaps, and related socioeconomic and psychosocial constraints. A seeming disconnect also exists between pilots and scale-ups, as most existing digital applications are unsuccessful in expanding beyond the pilot phase.

Year published

2024

Authors

Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr.; Salama, Yousra; Abay, Kibrom A.; Abdelaziz, Fatma; Zaccari, Claudia; Akramkhanov, Akmal; Menza, Gianpiero; Anarbekov, Oyture

Citation

Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr.; Salama, Yousra; Abay, Kibrom A.; Abdelaziz, Fatma; Zaccari, Claudia; et al. 2024. Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region. Global Food Security 41(June 2024): 100763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100763

Country/Region

Egypt; Morocco; Uzbekistan

Keywords

Africa; Asia; Northern Africa; Central Asia; Innovation; Market Access; Climate Change; Climate-smart Agriculture; Digital Technology

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-3.0-IGO

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100763 Source record

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Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Journal Article

Journal Article

Revisiting development strategy under climate uncertainty: case study of Malawi

2024Mukashov, Askar; Thomas, Timothy S.; Thurlow, James
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Revisiting development strategy under climate uncertainty: case study of Malawi

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of agriculture-led versus non-agriculture-led development strategies under climate-induced economic uncertainty. Utilizing Malawi as a case study, we introduce the application of Stochastic Dominance (SD) analysis, a tool from decision analysis theory, and compare the two strategies in the context of weather/climate-associated economic uncertainty. Our findings suggest that an agriculture-led development strategy consistently surpasses its non-agriculture-led antagonist in poverty and undernourishment outcomes across almost all possible weather/climate scenarios. This underscores that, despite increasing exposure of the entire economy to weather/climate uncertainty, agriculture-led development remains the optimal strategy for Malawi to reduce poverty and undernourishment. The study also endorses the broader use of SD analysis in policy planning studies, promoting its potential to integrate risk and uncertainty into policymaking.

Year published

2024

Authors

Mukashov, Askar; Thomas, Timothy S.; Thurlow, James

Citation

Mukashov, Askar; Thomas, Timothy; and Thurlow, James. 2024. Revisiting development strategy under climate uncertainty: case study of Malawi. Climatic Change 177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03733-2

Country/Region

Malawi

Keywords

Eastern Africa; Agriculture; Development; Climate Change; Stochastic Models; Poverty; Undernutrition

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03733-2 Source record

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Foresight

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Journal Article

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