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Who we are

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.

Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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What we do

Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

Where we work

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Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

The Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial Review (BR) is a powerful instrument for triggering policy actions for agricultural transformation in Africa. It is a reporting exercise established by the African Heads of State and Government under the 2014 Malabo Declaration on accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods. The CAADP BR report is important for countries in using the findings of the report to adjust implementation of their National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP) to achieve better results and outcomes.

Since preparation of the inaugural CAADP BR report that was released in 2018, IFPRI, together with other institutions (e.g., AGRA, Akademiya2063, FAO, Policy LINK, and ReSAKSS) have been providing technical assistance to the African Union Commission (and AUDA-NEPAD and the Regional Economic Communities) to improve the quality of the BR process, data, and reporting. Improving the quality of the BR data, for example, will help increase the reliability of policy implications derived from rigorous analysis of the data, which may in turn encourage policymakers to implement the resulting recommendations to accelerate agricultural transformation and achieve the goals and targets of the Malabo Declaration.

A major factor contributing to the success of the BR is the online portal for submitting data (the eBR), which was introduced during the second round of the BR. The eBR has improved the rate of compiling, checking, processing, and documenting data, as well as the timeliness of producing the Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard (AATS) and related results used in preparing the BR report. In the third round, the eBR system was further enhanced to reduce many common data entry errors (for example, unintended zeros, unknown units of measurement, and illogical or implausible values, among others) by placing various restrictions on the fields or cells for data entry.

Still, there are many countries where data quality issues remain severe, which IFPRI together with the other technical partners continue to work with the African Union Commission to resolve.

Activities include:

  • Leading or co-leading technical working groups
  • Developing and training on indicators, methods, and tools
  • Analyzing performance and outlook in achieving the CAADP and Malabo goals and targets
  • Contributing to writing the BR reports
  • Providing recommendations for improving the process, data, and reporting

Funders

Akademiya2063
Gates Foundation

Team members

Samuel Benin

Senior Research Fellow, Development
Strategies and Governance, Africa

John M. Ulimwengu

Senior Research Fellow, Africa,
Development Strategies and Governance