October 20, 2022, Bhubaneshwar: Raising farmers’ incomes has been at the forefront of the national policy agenda since the last few years. The doubling farmers’ incomes (DFI) initiative of the Government of Odisha is an ambitious step towards this goal. A majority of farmers in Odisha, like in other parts of India, are smallholders and have low crop yields—lower than
26 August 2022 marked an important day for the Nigerian agricultural sector as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) launched a new agriculture policy called the National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP) in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to provide a roadmap for the transformation of the agri-food systems in Nigeria. NATIP has a 6-year (2022 –
On August 3, 2022, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, invited food security experts, including Kwaw Andam, CGIAR Research Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS) Nigeria Country Lead and Country Program Leader of IFPRI Nigeria, to a roundtable discussion on the food situation in Nigeria. Other participants included representatives from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Nigeria, United
IFPRI conducts training to KIPPRA’s Young Professionals (YPs 2021/22 cohort) on Social Accounting Matrices and multiplier analysis. The CGIAR Research Initiative National Policies and Strategies (NPS) under the leadership of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has conducted an introductory training on Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and multiplier analysis for Kenya’s Young professionals. The SAMs and related training materials
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) hosted the first in a series of capacity-sharing workshops under the CGIAR National Policies and Strategies for Food, Land and Water Systems Transformation (NPS) Initiative1 on July 7, 2022. The training, which included government, policy think tanks, and other stakeholders introduced the social accounting matrix (SAM) as a policy and investment tool for economy-wide analysis and
On 23 June 2022, the Nigeria Inception Workshop of the CGIAR National Policies and Strategies for Food, Land and Water Systems Transformation (NPS) Initiative1, took place in Abuja. The workshop, following the initiative’s global launch in May 2022 in Kenya, introduced NPS’ work in Nigeria, launched the Nigeria NPS Seminar Series, and featured presentations on the various CGIAR initiatives and stakeholder group discussions. Several participants representing the
Harnessing Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy Making in Kenya: The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics and the International Food Policy Research Institute sign a Memorandum of Understanding Sound data together with cutting edge analytical tools are the basis for evidence-based policy- and decision making. With that common understanding the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) and the International Food Policy Research