Northern Africa

Charting economic paths forward.

A new famine warning.

More than 20 million face acute food insecurity.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries are known for high levels of overweight and obesity. Most predictions suggest that the rates of overweight and obesity have been increasing and are expected to reach alarming rates in the next few decades; there are several explanations that justify why. This seminar aims to shed […]

IFPRI, in partnership with AUC, is convening the 2016 ReSAKSS Annual Conference.

Diario Siglo XXI (Italy) published an article on the Action Against Hunger, an NGO that has developed an early warning system that combines high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence to combat the effects of climate change in the Sahel region. ACH used data from IFPRI that showed that the climate crisis will increase the number of malnourished children in the world […]

Newsday (Zimbabwe) reported on an op-ed by Ruth Meinzen-Dick. The op-ed explains that over 60% of all employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa work in agriculture. Yet the region’s women farmers often reap a meager harvest, not because of inclement weather or poor soil quality, but because of their gender. Republished in The Namibian, The Times […]

The Telegraph (UK) reported on how technology can help to transform African agriculture. Ousmane Badiane, Director of Africa said, “Africa has huge problems of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. We can’t wait to solve them and we don’t have the money to go the traditional way of building major roads before we can communicate with a […]

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