Africa Region Brown Bag PBR Cowpea Presentation_082423 -- Final.pdfIFPRI Africa
Dealing with pests: Evaluating the impacts of using the Pod Borer-Resistant (PBR) cowpea variety in Nigeria
Presentation: Kwaw Andam, Mulu Amare & Patricia Zambrano
Abstract
This brown bag seminar presents ongoing research on the impact evaluation of the PBR cowpea SAMPEA-20T variety in Nigeria. As the first commercially released genetically modified (GM) food crop in Nigeria and globally for cowpea, its adoption represents a significant milestone in the agricultural landscape Developers of the PBR variety expect that by 2025, 25 percent of Nigerian cowpea farmers adopt this variety, generating yield gains of at least 20 percent for adopting farmers, with accompanying reductions in pesticide applications. The evaluation aims to examine household-level effects of the use of PBR cowpea on key outcomes related to cowpea production and productivity.
‘’Institutional Capacity for Climate Action: Missing Dimensions, Integrated...IFPRI Africa
Countries in the Global South have committed to the UNFCCC's Paris Agreement and have been preparing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) implementation and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). While they are in different stages of implementing these plans, several institutional capacity challenges need to be addressed in their progress toward a coordinated multisectoral delivery of these plans. In this presentation, we look at selected examples of institutional architecture for climate change actions and present a systematic way of studying and addressing these challenges. We bring lessons from Ghana, Malawi, Tajikistan, India, Vietnam, and Bangladesh to identify opportunities for strengthening local capacities of the policy, regulatory, investment, and governance systems. We argue multisectoral integration for climate action requires strengthening sectoral approaches and actions with climate mainstreaming, leveraging limited resources for climate action outcomes, and joint monitoring and tracking of the progress for national and global reporting.
Modelling Food Systems as Neural NetworksIFPRI Africa
Food systems encompass connected actors and activities who jointly produce food and nutrition security for all. Hence, modelling food system requires a framework that mimics not only the behavior of individual components of the system but also captures the interactions between them. In this paper, we use Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) as a predictive framework that capture nonlinear correlation between food systems inputs and its out main output, food security.
Policy Drivers of Africa’s Agriculture Transformation: A CAADP Biennial Revie...IFPRI Africa
This paper assesses the nature of agricultural transformation taking place in different parts of Africa and analyzes policy drivers of the transformation using data from the CAADP Biennial Review (BR) on 46 indicators from 2014 to 2018. First, a typology of agriculture transformation in different groups of countries is developed by analyzing the initial values and trends in three indicators—share of agriculture in total employment, share of agriculture in gross domestic product, and agriculture labor productivity. The typology, in addition to a conceptual framework that is developed for measuring the relative effect of a policy on an outcome, provides the basis for analyzing the policy drivers of agriculture transformation. The 46 BR indicators are classified into policies (13 indicators), intermediate results (23 indicators), and outcomes (10 indicators), and then econometric methods are used to measure the association between the policy indicators and the intermediate results and outcomes, which include agriculture intensification (e.g., access to finance and extension, fertilizer use, and irrigation development), agriculture growth, agriculture trade, food security, nutrition, and poverty.
Africa Region Brown Bag PBR Cowpea Presentation_082423 -- Final.pdfIFPRI Africa
Dealing with pests: Evaluating the impacts of using the Pod Borer-Resistant (PBR) cowpea variety in Nigeria
Presentation: Kwaw Andam, Mulu Amare & Patricia Zambrano
Abstract
This brown bag seminar presents ongoing research on the impact evaluation of the PBR cowpea SAMPEA-20T variety in Nigeria. As the first commercially released genetically modified (GM) food crop in Nigeria and globally for cowpea, its adoption represents a significant milestone in the agricultural landscape Developers of the PBR variety expect that by 2025, 25 percent of Nigerian cowpea farmers adopt this variety, generating yield gains of at least 20 percent for adopting farmers, with accompanying reductions in pesticide applications. The evaluation aims to examine household-level effects of the use of PBR cowpea on key outcomes related to cowpea production and productivity.
‘’Institutional Capacity for Climate Action: Missing Dimensions, Integrated...IFPRI Africa
Countries in the Global South have committed to the UNFCCC's Paris Agreement and have been preparing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) implementation and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). While they are in different stages of implementing these plans, several institutional capacity challenges need to be addressed in their progress toward a coordinated multisectoral delivery of these plans. In this presentation, we look at selected examples of institutional architecture for climate change actions and present a systematic way of studying and addressing these challenges. We bring lessons from Ghana, Malawi, Tajikistan, India, Vietnam, and Bangladesh to identify opportunities for strengthening local capacities of the policy, regulatory, investment, and governance systems. We argue multisectoral integration for climate action requires strengthening sectoral approaches and actions with climate mainstreaming, leveraging limited resources for climate action outcomes, and joint monitoring and tracking of the progress for national and global reporting.
Modelling Food Systems as Neural NetworksIFPRI Africa
Food systems encompass connected actors and activities who jointly produce food and nutrition security for all. Hence, modelling food system requires a framework that mimics not only the behavior of individual components of the system but also captures the interactions between them. In this paper, we use Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) as a predictive framework that capture nonlinear correlation between food systems inputs and its out main output, food security.
Policy Drivers of Africa’s Agriculture Transformation: A CAADP Biennial Revie...IFPRI Africa
This paper assesses the nature of agricultural transformation taking place in different parts of Africa and analyzes policy drivers of the transformation using data from the CAADP Biennial Review (BR) on 46 indicators from 2014 to 2018. First, a typology of agriculture transformation in different groups of countries is developed by analyzing the initial values and trends in three indicators—share of agriculture in total employment, share of agriculture in gross domestic product, and agriculture labor productivity. The typology, in addition to a conceptual framework that is developed for measuring the relative effect of a policy on an outcome, provides the basis for analyzing the policy drivers of agriculture transformation. The 46 BR indicators are classified into policies (13 indicators), intermediate results (23 indicators), and outcomes (10 indicators), and then econometric methods are used to measure the association between the policy indicators and the intermediate results and outcomes, which include agriculture intensification (e.g., access to finance and extension, fertilizer use, and irrigation development), agriculture growth, agriculture trade, food security, nutrition, and poverty.
RDR seminar on ''Understanding Urban and Rural Household Food Consumption in ...IFPRI Africa
To conclude his presentation during the Research and Development Roundtables (RDR), Dr Wim mentioned that Senegal is a clear case of hidden hunger, Urban diet is bigger in size and more diversified than rural diet, which remains largely dominated by cereals and nutrient adequacies are higher in areas known for production of corresponding crops especially for iron and millet, except for vitamin B12 and vitamin A
Mechanization Conference, Dakar MaMo Policy Innovations by Dr. Ousmane BadianeIFPRI Africa
At the Malabo Montpellier Panel’s event on "Mechanization and Transformation of Agricultural Value Chains in Africa" held on April 16, 2019 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, in Dakar Senegal, Dr Ousmane Badiane, Africa Director of IFPRI and Co-chair of the Malabo Montpellier Panel discussed the importance of learning from Positive Change for policy innovation in Africa's Agricultural Sector.
Mechanization conference, Dakar_Transforming Africa's Agricultural Valu Chain...IFPRI Africa
During the Conference on Mechanization in Africa's agriculture held in Dakar on the 16th of April, Professor Noble Bannada explained how being mechanized does not only mean having tractors. He discussed in details the advantages of being mechanized using different equipment depending on the need and this, in every step of the process from the production to the sale of an agricultural product especially as of today, with the impacts of climate change on the working conditions of farmers, the planting till harvesting process and period and its impacts on the global economy as a whole without mechanization. he addressed a key message to the high graduate students about their role and importance in agriculture and the results of their involvement.
Global Food Policy Report 2018. Présentation de Dr. Shenggen Fan : Directeur ...IFPRI Africa
Lancement du Rapport 2018 Sur les Politiques Alimentaires Mondiales : " Conséquences de l'Intégration Mondiale pour le Système Alimentaire International ".
RDR seminar on ''Understanding Urban and Rural Household Food Consumption in ...IFPRI Africa
To conclude his presentation during the Research and Development Roundtables (RDR), Dr Wim mentioned that Senegal is a clear case of hidden hunger, Urban diet is bigger in size and more diversified than rural diet, which remains largely dominated by cereals and nutrient adequacies are higher in areas known for production of corresponding crops especially for iron and millet, except for vitamin B12 and vitamin A
Mechanization Conference, Dakar MaMo Policy Innovations by Dr. Ousmane BadianeIFPRI Africa
At the Malabo Montpellier Panel’s event on "Mechanization and Transformation of Agricultural Value Chains in Africa" held on April 16, 2019 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, in Dakar Senegal, Dr Ousmane Badiane, Africa Director of IFPRI and Co-chair of the Malabo Montpellier Panel discussed the importance of learning from Positive Change for policy innovation in Africa's Agricultural Sector.
Mechanization conference, Dakar_Transforming Africa's Agricultural Valu Chain...IFPRI Africa
During the Conference on Mechanization in Africa's agriculture held in Dakar on the 16th of April, Professor Noble Bannada explained how being mechanized does not only mean having tractors. He discussed in details the advantages of being mechanized using different equipment depending on the need and this, in every step of the process from the production to the sale of an agricultural product especially as of today, with the impacts of climate change on the working conditions of farmers, the planting till harvesting process and period and its impacts on the global economy as a whole without mechanization. he addressed a key message to the high graduate students about their role and importance in agriculture and the results of their involvement.
Global Food Policy Report 2018. Présentation de Dr. Shenggen Fan : Directeur ...IFPRI Africa
Lancement du Rapport 2018 Sur les Politiques Alimentaires Mondiales : " Conséquences de l'Intégration Mondiale pour le Système Alimentaire International ".
Global Food Policy Report 2018. Présentation de Dr. Shenggen Fan : Directeur ...
Ensae open house
1. IFPRI OUVRE SES PORTES AUX
ETUDIANTS DE L’ENSAE
Dans le cadre de la série de journées porte-
ouvertes aux étudiants, la première école
ciblée est l’ENSAE
Les étudiants de 2ème année de la filière ISE ont
ainsi assisté à une présentation par Dr
Ousmane Badiane, Ismael Fofana, Sunday
Odjo et Mamadou Tankari
La journée s’est terminée par une visite guidé
du centre de documentation où les outils de
connaissance d’IFPRI leur ont été présentés,
2. Rencontre stratégie et développement
du 29 juin2012
Dans le cadre de la série de rencontres
Stratégies et Développement, l’IFPRI a
présenté le 29 juin au Radisson son
Rapport Mondial sur les politiques
Alimentaires en présence de son directeur
Général le Dr Shengen Fan.
Cette rencontre s’est faite en partenariat
avec l’ANSD, la DAPS, la DPEE, la
FASEG, l’ISRA et l’IPAR et vu la présence
de nombreux invités les partenaires
d’IFPRI les membres du corps
diplomatique et de la presse.