AGRODEP Blog
posted by bdimaranan on 4 years 4 months ago (0 comments)
The European Commission-funded Food Security Portal (FSP), facilitated by IFPRI, seeks to help improve the ability of governments to respond to and prevent food crises by bringing together policy-relevant tools and information in one place. The Food Security Portal is designed to pool information in structured ways to ensure data quality, timeliness, and relevance, as well as the opportunity for collaboration among policymakers,…
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The Institute for Development and Economic Planning (IDEP) launched a research and training project on « Debt, taxation and financing for development: immediate responses to global emergencies and efficient planning». The project will cover Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal. For this position, IDEP is recruiting one(01) Consultant for each of the English-…
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The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) has launched a program of research and training on “Debt, Taxation and Financing for Development: Immediate Responses to International Crises and Effective Planning” (Debt, taxation and financing for development: immediate responses to global emergencies and efficient planning). The program covers the following 10 countries: Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana…
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With support from the USAID, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will assess the interaction and compatibility of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) with the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). This call for applications is for AGRODEP members who are interested and available to work on this project.
Objectives
The objective of the project is to analyze the achievements…
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This webinar is co-organized by IFPRI, REPOA
and the Food Security Portal.
When: October 27, 2020
3:00 – 4:30pm EAT (8:00 – 9:30am EST)
Register here.
The International Labour Organization estimates that approximately 80% of workers in Africa South of the Sahara are employed in the informal economy. Beyond providing employment, particularly to society’s more vulnerable or…
posted by bdimaranan on 4 years 6 months ago (0 comments)
This virtual policy dialogue will be presented by IFPRI, ASARECA, the EC, the CAADP-X4 project, and IFAD.
When: October 7, 2020
3:00pm EAT (Addis Ababa)
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a global health crisis causing deep disruptions to and widespread impacts on food systems, social systems, and economic development. The scale of the pandemic’s expected impact on poverty, food security, nutrition, and…
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In 2019, 135 million people in 55 countries faced crisis level acute food insecurity, driven primarily by conflict, weather extremes, and economic shocks, according to the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises. With hunger on the rise, there is a clear need to improve early warning systems and other tools to prevent food crises. One way to do this is to improve and increase the use of real-time…
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THURSDAY, September 24, 2020
13:00 - 15:30 GMT
08:00 - 10:30 US CT
09:00 - 11:30 US ET
15:00 - 17:30 CET/CAT
Register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xcFmJumTSwqIz3qxEvFZnw
After decades of decline and stagnation, African economies turned a corner as economic growth picked up considerably since the early 2000s. The choices of policymakers had much to do with the dramatic changes observed in Africa…
posted by bdimaranan on 4 years 7 months ago (1 comments)
Akademiya2063 will host a COVID-19 responses webinar on Food Staple Market Dynamics: Tracking local food prices during the pandemic.
The webinar will be presented by Dr Sunday Odjo, Deputy Director, Knowledge Systems, AKADEMIYA2063 and moderated by Dr Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson, AKADEMIYA2063.
It will be held on Thursday, August 27 at 2:00 - 3:30pm UTC (GMT)
Kindly find the link to register at https://…
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Introduction
After more than a decade of global growth, worldwide, including within the African continent, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that began to spread in the first quarter of 2020 rampantly, brought most countries around the world to a standstill. Many countries worldwide are experiencing aggravated socioeconomic shocks that are aggravated by COVID-19. Globally, the health crisis has further exacerbated food insecurity,…