The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA, is hosting it’s 6TH AFRICA AGRICULTURE SCIENCE WEEK AND FARA GENERAL ASSEMBLY at Accra International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana. This year’s theme is – Africa Feeding Africa…
The African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium recently issued its second annual call for “Gaps in Research” Grants. These grants support research on emerging issues in Africa that have previously received little or…
Chiara Kovarik is a Senior Research Assistant in IFPRI’s Poverty Health and Nutrition Division
Today, on World Population Day, IFPRI recognizes that the world’s growing population—which reached 7 billion in 2011—has a powerful impact on dev…
Married to the mortgage Are high house prices hurting women more than men?The EconomistHouses are least affordable in those parts of China where men most outnumber women, argue Shang-jin Wei of Columbia University, Xiaobo Zhang of the International Foo…
According to IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan and Senior Research Analyst Tolulope Olofinbiyi, world agriculture has reached a crossroads. Rising incomes; changing population, demographics, and consumer preferences; growing natural resource constra…
