The Conversation published an article by Joachim De Weerdt, Channing Arndt, James Thurlow, Jan Duchoslav, Joseph Glauber, Liangzhi You, and Weston Anderson. The article looked at possible weather pattern changes driven by El Niño – an unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean – and their impact on maize production in Malawi. […]
IFPRI Blog: Fertilizer policies amid global supply and price shocks
Achieving efficient and effective fertilizer usage in agricultural production is a critically important economic and environmental policy objective for countries at all stages of economic development, although the nature of the policy problem may vary radically in different contexts.
IFPRI Blog: Climate Risk to Resilience: Financing adaptation in African countries
A caricature of the situation in climate finance, particularly regarding Africa, is a classic vicious circle: Climate finance is not flowing because of the lack of bankable investment plans; the lack of investment plans is due to a lack of faith that climate finance will flow.
Three outstanding questions about AIP 2.0
By: Jan Duchoslav and Joachim De Weerdt On 20 October 2023, His Excellency the President launched the 2023/24 Affordable Inputs Programme, dubbed AIP 2.0. Details about the program emerged a few days earlier when the AIP Implementation Guidelines were published, and the Minister of Agriculture held a press conference on the same. The guidelines and […]
IFPRI Blog: Introducing the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
The global commitment to reaching Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, is only growing stronger. For instance, there has been tremendous growth in the number of metrics assessing women’s empowerment since 2010 (Quisumbing et al., 2023). But none of these metrics are concise enough nor applicable across a […]
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