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Rising Demand for Social Protection Across Africa Requires Careful Fiscal Balancing, Research
Addis Ababa, October 24, 2018: After a prolonged period of economic stagnation and decline, African economies have experienced rapid growth over the last two decades. Poverty and malnutrition have fallen steadily during that period.
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The future of social protection in Africa
There are three principal objectives here—the three P’s of social protection. The first is protecting households against hunger through consumption smoothing. The second, prevention, is intended to protect a household’s assets during crises.
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Food Quality in the Senegalese Onion Market
Agriculture market reforms that allow quality recognition enable farmers to capture higher prices and lead to adoption of better technology.
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Can irrigation both empower and exclude women?
Empowering women farmers takes more than simply making new technologies available to them: it requires a deeper appreciation of the constraints and specific challenges that may prevent them from adopting and benefiting from it.
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The Twenty-First Century agricultural cooperative: Increasing the business credibility of smallholders
Geographic distance and diseconomies of scale have historically made the cost of doing business with smallholder farmers prohibitively high.
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Foreign rush for Africa’s arable land and impact on food security
Africa is fast becoming the world’s bread basket, attracting investors from different countries around the world, who are buying up and/or leasing arable land to produce food for their own countries. This is the finding of a report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The report on Foreign Direct Investment in West…
Who we are
IFPRI in Africa provides on-the-ground support for local research, capacity building, and partnerships to reduce poverty and end malnutrition across the continent.
What we do
We conduct evidence-based research on agriculture, food security, nutrition, gender, markets, and climate resilience—tailored to African contexts.
Where we work
We share research findings with key stakeholders through policy dialogues, public events, workshops, publications, and blogs.