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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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

2024Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul; 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; Salama, Yousra; Abay, Kibrom A.; Abdelaziz, Fatma; Zaccari, Claudia; Akramkhanov, Akmal; Menza, Gianpiero; Anarbekov, Oyture

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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

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Egypt; Morocco; Uzbekistan

Keywords

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

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English

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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

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L’intégration du Maroc à la Zone de Libre-Echange Continentale (ZLECAf): Scenarii d’impacts à l’horizon 2035 et politiques d’accompagnement

2021Bouët, Antoine; Laborde Debucquet, David; Traoré, Fousseini; Ait Faraji, Said; Darouich, Naima; Hamdaoui, Fatima; Tounsi, Sihame
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L’intégration du Maroc à la Zone de Libre-Echange Continentale (ZLECAf): Scenarii d’impacts à l’horizon 2035 et politiques d’accompagnement

Conformément à l’Agenda 2063, la ZLECAf représente une étape majeure dans l’achèvement réel de l’intégration économique de l’Afrique. Elle s’est fixée comme objectifs, entre autres, la création d’un marché unique pour les marchandises et les services, la contribution à la circulation des capitaux et des personnes et le fondement des bases de la création d’une union douanière continentale ultérieurement. Le Maroc, qui a fait du développement socio-économique de l’Afrique l’une de ses priorités, était parmi les premiers pays signataires de cet accord. Pour anticiper les conséquences économiques de l’adhésion du Maroc à la ZLECAf, la Direction des Etudes et des Prévisions financières (DEPF) du Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances du Royaume du Maroc et l’Agence Française du Développement (AFD) en collaboration avec l’IFPRI, ont entrepris une étude des impacts économiques de cette adhésion à l’aide du modèle MIRAGRODEP. Ce par tenariat s’inscrit dans l’objectif d’éclairer la décision et l’action des acteurs économiques et des pouvoirs publics en matière de formulation, d’accompagnement et d’évaluation des politiques d’intégration africaine du Maroc.

Year published

2021

Authors

Bouët, Antoine; Laborde Debucquet, David; Traoré, Fousseini; Ait Faraji, Said; Darouich, Naima; Hamdaoui, Fatima; Tounsi, Sihame

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Bouët, Antoine; Laborde Debucquet, David; Traore, Fousseini; Ait Faraji, Said; Darouich, Naima; Hamdaoui, Fatima; and Tounsi, Sihame. 2021. L’intégration du Maroc à la Zone de Libre-Echange Continentale (ZLECAf): Scenarii d’impacts à l’horizon 2035 et politiques d’accompagnement. DEPF Brief 26. Rabat-Chellah, Morocco: DEPF. http://www.abhatoo.net.ma/maalama-textuelle/developpement-economique-et-social/developpement-economique/commerce/libre-echange/l-integration-du-maroc-a-la-zone-de-libre-echange-continentale-zlecaf-scenarii-d-impacts-a-l-horizon-2035-et-politiques-d-accompagnement

Country/Region

Morocco

Keywords

Northern Africa; Africa; Models; Economic Integration; Trade Liberalization; Policies; Capacity Development; Trade

Language

French

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Open Access

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Brief

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Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future

2018Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; El-Enbaby, Hoda; Figueroa, Jose Luis; ElDidi, Hagar; Breisinger, Clemens
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Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future

The agriculture sector is key for economic and social development, but the sector’s potential has not received enough attention from policy makers and stakeholders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Political transitions, instability, and the resulting refugee crisis have shifted focus away from other pressing development challenges, including slow progress in economic diversification, high unemployment, and persistent high food insecurity and rural poverty. Despite its small contribution to GDP, agriculture is strategic for sustainable development in the MENA countries. Agriculture, for example, is central to achieve food and water security in a region characterized as one of the most food insecure and water scarce in the world. The sector’s role in employment is also central, given the region’s high structural unemployment. However, it will not be possible for MENA countries to develop agriculture without a pathway to structural economic transformation. The region has already started the process of transformation but longstanding challenges remain. This report aims to examine the drivers, constraints, and social implications of agricultural development in MENA and to explore possible cornerstones for new and sustainable development strategies in the context of economic transformation. More specifically, the report provides answers to the following questions: • What development strategies and policies did governments in MENA put in place over the past three decades and how did they affect the performance of agriculture? • How did the structural characteristics of the MENA countries affect agricultural development and the economic transformation process in the region? • What did we learn from the past performance of agriculture? What should be the central elements guiding future agricultural policies? • What are elements of a new and sustainable development strategy in MENA countries? • What is the role of agriculture and agro-industries for development in MENA?

Year published

2018

Authors

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; El-Enbaby, Hoda; Figueroa, Jose Luis; ElDidi, Hagar; Breisinger, Clemens

Citation

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; El-Enbaby, Hoda; Figueroa, Jose Luis; ElDidi, Hagar; and Breisinger, Clemens. 2018. Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future. Food Policy Report Washington, DC and Rome, Italy: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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Egypt; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia

Keywords

Africa; Northern Africa; Middle East; Rural Population; Rural Poverty; Food Policies; Agricultural Growth; Economic Policies; Labour Productivity; Markets; Trade; Agricultural Development

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-NC-SA-3.0-IGO

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292956 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Report

Datasets

Dataset

ASTI Morocco Database

2014Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators
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ASTI Morocco Database

This dataset includes national-level time series data on researcher capacity by qualification level, age bracket, discipline mix, and commodity, as well as a detailed breakdown of agricultural research investment across government, higher education, nonprofit, and (where possible) private for-profit agricultural research agencies. These data were derived through a series of primary survey rounds conducted by IFPRI’s Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) and in close collaboration with a large network of national collaborators. The ASTI data constitute a powerful resource for national and regional research managers, policymakers, donor organizations, and other stakeholders. ASTI’s key indicators provide both a diagnostic tool for assessing the allocation and use of existing resources and an advocacy tool for increasing resources and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of resource use. The ASTI website offers interactive pages that allow users to access country-level time series data, make cross-country comparisons, create graphs, and download country datasets and publications as well as detailed institutional information on agencies involved in agricultural research. The interactive benchmarking tool on the ASTI website is a convenient map-based instrument allowing users to make cross-country comparisons and rankings based on a wide set of financial and human resource indicators. The detailed ASTI datasets are available in an easy-to-use data download tool. Detailed information on definitions, methodology, and calculation procedures are available at www.asti.cgiar.org

Year published

2014

Authors

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators

Citation

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators. 2014. ASTI Morocco database. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. http://www.asti.cgiar.org/morocco. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Morocco

Keywords

Africa; Northern Africa; Agricultural Research

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English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-NC-3.0

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Dataset

Events

Are digital technologies the answer to food system transformation in Africa during Covid-19? Lessons from Kenya
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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June 4, 2020, 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Are digital technologies the answer to food system transformation in Africa during Covid-19? Lessons from Kenya

During this webinar, insights will be shared on the strong institutional, policy and programmatic developments that are making Kenya one of the frontrunners on agricultural digitalization across the continent and how digital technologies can provide some immediate and longer-term answers to securing food supplies in Africa’s urban areas in the context of COVID- 19. Discussions […]

News

November 20, 2021 | In the News

ZLECAf and Moroccan economy: Experts assess the impact of the continental market (Maghress)

Maghress (Morocco) published an article on the results of a study to assess the impact of the AfCFTA on the Moroccan economy. Partnering with various NGOs including IFPRI, the study aims to assess the potential impacts of different African integration scenarios on the Moroccan economy and to prospect for public policy responses capable of maximizing the benefits of the future […]

November 17, 2021 | In the News

Rabat: The impact of the AfCFTA on the Moroccan economy under debate (Yabiladi)

Yabiladi (Morocco) published an article on the debate that went on regarding the results of a study to assess the impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on the Moroccan economy. Carried out through a peer-to-peer partnership, co-construction, and mobilization of international experts from IFPRI and national experts from DEPF, this study was based on advanced […]

Projects

Agricultural Transformation and Policy: What are the policy priorities?

Agricultural Transformation and Policy: What are the policy priorities?

Achieving agricultural transformation in a country – the transformation of an agri-food system from a high prevalence of subsistence farming to high productivity, so that……