From 23-26 September 2019 the 6th African Conference of Agricultural Economics (ACAE) will be held in Abuja, Nigeria. Under the theme “Rising to meet new challenges: Africa's agricultural development beyond 2020 Vision”, the conference will explore recent developments in agricultural systems across Africa. Key drivers of change include population growth, rapid urbanization, productivity enhancing innovation, climate change, the rise of agri-preneurship, land reform, as well as policy and investment priorities by governments and development partners. To remain relevant, agricultural economists must put these developments in context, present evidence on their causes and consequences, and anticipate the policy challenges that governments will be facing and seeking guidance on in the next few years. The conference will bring together leading scholars, policy makers, agribusiness representatives and development practitioners to examine how these new mega-trends are shaping agricultural development in Africa.
Competition for places for this event has been especially tough this year. A total of 479 papers were submitted, while there is only place for 160 papers in the presentation sessions. We are glad that the papers of two of our IFPRI Malawi team members were accepted. Our associate research fellow Dennis Ochieng will present on ‘Managing climate risk through crop-diversification in rural Kenya’ while our research analyst Rosemary Botha will speak about ‘Price volatility and the spatial integration of maize markets.’
Congratulations to Dennis and Rosemary on this achievement.
The African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) was founded in 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya. To learn more about the organization and previous conferences, visit their website at https://aaae-africa.org.
Read IFPRI's event post IFPRI at the African Association of Agricultural Economists conference here.
