AGRODEP Blog

What a great meeting. I am so grateful for the privilege availed me by IFPRI and AGRODEP to partake at the meeting. It was very educative and inspiring throughout the two days. Innovative and other contemporary researches were presented and fine tuned by experts. These humble experts were real veterans. We were able to have them to ourselves, discussed with them, even during coffee, lunch and cocktail times. They made constructively comments…
It happened again with the invitation some AGRODEP members to the just concluded Workshop held in Dakar, Senegal between 19 and 20 Nov., 2013. I call it an event that is very rare in Africa, a capacity building, motivating, skill acquisition and networking programme organized by a unique training and research facilitating outfit- AGRODEP. I wish to specially appreciate the AGRODEP management for the noble effort. My thanks go to great resource…
I am happy to be among members of AGRODEP who participated in the just concluded 2013 AGRODEP annual meeting in Dakar (November 19-20, 2013). The organizers of the meeting did well in impacting knowledge, logistics, feeding and decent accommodation. I further appreciate AGRODEP - a consortium God has given Africa at this time, that is assisting not only in training Africa researchers but also providing funds for research projects, funding…
I am happy to be among members of AGRODEP who participated in the just concluded 2013 AGRODEP annual meeting in Dakar (November 19-20, 2013). The organizers of the meeting did well in impacting knowledge, logistics, feeding and decent accommodation. I further appreciate AGRODEP - a consortium God has given Africa at this time, that is assisting not only in training Africa researchers but also providing funds for research projects, funding…
AGRODEP is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 17th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, co-organized by AGRODEP and the Center for Global Trade Analysis.  The goal of the annual conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application. Related…
The African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) is organising the Third Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-III) at the UNECA Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from October 21-23, 2013.  The theme of this year’s Conference is: Africa on the rise: can the opportunities from climate change spring the continent to transformative development?  The Conference will bring researchers together to share…
The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Trust is now accepting applications for the Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award. The Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award supports a mentorship relationship with a view to promote high quality research of a policy/problem solving nature in countries with food insecurity and environmental pressures. It is meant to promote collaboration between an early career scholar who is a citizen of and…
The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Trust has invited nominations for economists from less developed countries to be awarded full travel grants to attend the 2014 AAEA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN from July 27–29, 2014. Nominees should be professional economists who are from and residing in a developing country and should be working in one or more of the fields of agricultural, development, environmental,…
AGRODEP's call for proposals for the 2013 Grants for Innovative Research will close on September 30. This year's theme is Economic Growth and Development in Africa: Lessons from the Last Forty Years and Implications for Sustainability. AGRODEP members are encouraged to submit joint or collaborative proposals in order to increase networking among Consortium members. Learn more about this year's theme and the requirements for…
am most grateful to IFPRI and AGRODEP team for facilitating my participation at the just concluded Training on Applied Panel Data. For me the training was relevant and timely considering recent trends in Panel data analyses. Most of us were just getting to learn so many issues on contemporary panel data analyses there. Right from the onset, we were introduced to the use and applications of the free online R software which to me, is a very…