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Khalid Siddig

Khalid Siddig is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Program Leader for the Sudan Strategy Support Program. He is an agricultural economist with a focus on examining the impacts of potential shocks and the allocation of resources on economic growth, environmental sustainability, and income distribution through the lens of economywide and micro-level tools. 

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Transform Nutrition West Africa is a regional platform to enable effective policy and programmatic action on nutrition, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2017-2021 and led by the International Food Policy Research Institute. We work across the region but our focal countries are: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. We want you to join us and be part of a network of people and organisations in West Africa using evidence to generate change.

Transform Nutrition West Africa is developing partnerships with a number of regional, continental, and international platforms. We also seek to be as responsive as possible to nutrition information needs in the region.

Project duration: 2017 – 2021

Contact

Stuart Gillespie

Donors and funders

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) led by IFPRI

Project partners

DataDENT

Countdown 2030

Alive & Thrive

UNICEF

West African Health Organisation (WAHO)

Scaling Up Nutrition

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)

Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS)

Publications

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Working Paper

Systematic risk profiling: A novel approach with applications to Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi

2024Mukashov, Askar; Robinson, Sherman; Thurlow, James; Arndt, Channing; Thomas, Timothy S.
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Systematic risk profiling: A novel approach with applications to Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi

This paper uses machine learning, simulation, and data mining methods to develop Systematic Risk Profiles of three developing economies: Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi. We focus on three exogenous shocks with implications for economic performance: world market prices, capital flows, and climate-driven sectoral productivity. In these and other developing countries, recent decades have been characterized by increased risks associated with all these factors, and there is a demand for instruments that can help to disentangle them. For each country, we utilize historical data to develop multi-variate distributions of shocks. We then sample from these distributions to obtain a series of shock vectors, which we label economic uncertainty scenarios. These scenarios are then entered into economywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) simulation models for the three countries, which allow us to quantify the impact of increased uncertainty on major economic indicators. Finally, we utilize importance metrics from the random forest machine learning algorithm and relative importance metrics from multiple linear regression models to quantify the importance of country-specific risk factors for country performance. We find that Malawi and Rwanda are more vulnerable to sectoral productivity shocks, and Kenya is more exposed to external risks. These findings suggest that a country’s level of development and integration into the global economy are key driving forces defining their risk profiles. The methodology of Systematic Risk Profiling can be applied to many other countries, delineating country-specific risks and vulnerabilities.

Year published

2024

Authors

Mukashov, Askar; Robinson, Sherman; Thurlow, James; Arndt, Channing; Thomas, Timothy S.

Citation

Mukashov, Askar; Robinson, Sherman; Thurlow, James; Arndt, Channing; and Thomas, Timothy S. 2024. Systematic risk profiling: A novel approach with applications to Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2286. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Country/Region

Kenya; Rwanda; Malawi

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Climate; Computable General Equilibrium Models; Machine Learning; Risk; Uncertainty

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Source

Source record

Project

Foresight

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Working Paper

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Conference Paper

Foreign direct investment, globalized agri-food value chains and transformation

2024Saroj, Sunil; Veeramani, Choorikkad; Roy, Devesh; Kamar, Abul; Pradhan, Mamata
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Foreign direct investment, globalized agri-food value chains and transformation

We examine the determinants of participation and positioning in the Agriculture Globalized Value Chains (AGVC) with focus on role of foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in agriculture. Among the determinants, trade policies that are reflected in cost to trade play a significant role in AGVC engagement. FDI in agriculture affects AGVC structure correlating significantly with forward participation. FDI holds potential for enhancing value addition, technology diffusion, and market access. We then assess the effect of AGVC on production diversification in agriculture i.e., manifested in crop choices. A priori is unclear whether AGVC participation and positioning leads to greater specialization or diversification as there are forces in either direction. Our findings show that AGVC participation is associated with diversified agriculture. Moreover, the effect varies by positioning (backward and forward). The estimates using panel regression, Lewbel instrumental variable method and continuous treatment matching yielding dose response functions show these results to be robust. Results also vary regionally. East and Southeast Asia show the strongest association between AGVC and product diversification.

Year published

2024

Authors

Saroj, Sunil; Veeramani, Choorikkad; Roy, Devesh; Kamar, Abul; Pradhan, Mamata

Citation

Saroj, Sunil; Veeramani, Choorikkad; Roy, Devesh; Kamar, Abul; and Pradhan, Mamata. 2024. Foreign direct investment, globalized agri-food value chains and transformation. Presented at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists in New Delhi, India on August 6, 2024

Keywords

Foreign Investment; Value Chains; Agrifood Systems; Diversification; Uncertainty

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Source

Source record

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Conference Paper

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Brief

WEAGov Nigeria pilot study: Findings and policy implications

2023Ragasa, Catherine; Kyle, Jordan; Onoja, Anthony; Achika, Anthonia I.; Adejoh, Stella O.; Onyenekwe, Chinasa S.; Koledoye, Gbenga; Ujor, Gloria C.; Nwali, Perpetual
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WEAGov Nigeria pilot study: Findings and policy implications

WEAGov assesses the state of women’s voice and agency in national agrifood policymaking. Like IFPRI’s Kaleidoscope Model, it adopts a policy process approach, looking at every stage of the policy cycle — from why certain issues become salient and how policy solutions to address them are designed, to the organizational strategies and budgetary outlays that shape policy implementation, to how policies are assessed against their objectives. Within each of these stages, WEAGov examines whether women are being considered, whether their voices are included, and whether they are influencing actions and decisions.

Year published

2023

Authors

Ragasa, Catherine; Kyle, Jordan; Onoja, Anthony; Achika, Anthonia I.; Adejoh, Stella O.; Onyenekwe, Chinasa S.; Koledoye, Gbenga; Ujor, Gloria C.; Nwali, Perpetual

Citation

Ragasa, Catherine; and Kyle, Jordan. 2023. WEAGov Nigeria pilot study: Findings and policy implications. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Country/Region

Nigeria

Keywords

Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Women’s Empowerment; Policies; Agrifood Systems

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

Project

Gender Equality

Record type

Brief

Blogs

Transform Nutrition West Africa: Time to build on the momentum
IFPRI Blog
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September 17, 2021

Transform Nutrition West Africa: Time to build on the momentum

By Roosmarijn Verstraeten

A four-country project's foundation for knowledge sharing and policy collaboration.

Events

Analysis of nutrition research networks in West Africa: Application of social network analysis to co-authorship data to understand and enhance collaboration
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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April 20, 2020, 2:00 – 3:00 pm

Analysis of nutrition research networks in West Africa: Application of social network analysis to co-authorship data to understand and enhance collaboration

This webinar will present results from social network analysis (SNA) of nutrition networks in West Africa. A sub-component of the systematic review, this work applies SNA to authorship and affiliation data collected for the review to illuminate the patterns of collaboration and the structures of collaborative networks. The results highlight how SNA can be used […]

Donors

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) led by IFPRI

Team members

Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey

Senior Research Fellow, Africa,
Nutrition, Diets, and Health

Loty Diop

Loty Diop

Senior Research Analyst, Nutrition,
Diets, and Health

Mariama Toure

Mariama Toure

Senior Research Analyst, Nutrition,
Diets, and Health

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