Climate resilience and job prospects for young people in agricultureIFPRI-PIM
Climate change matters for all people. Does it matter particularly for young people? If so, where and how?
PIM Webinar, February 7, 2019.
Presenters: Karen Brooks, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University and Keith Wiebe, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI.
For more information, slides, and podcast visit http://bit.ly/CRJYwebr
What determines public budgets for agricultural growth in the developing world?IFPRI-PIM
Webinar by Tewodaj Mogues, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on Sept 26, 2017. See abstract here: https://pim.cgiar.org/2017/09/18/webinar-what-determines-public-budgets-for-agricultural-growth-in-the-developing-world/ Fourth webinar in PIM's 2017 series (https://pim.cgiar.org/2017/05/11/pim-monthly-webinars-may-october-2017/)
Methods for studying gender dynamics in value chains beyond the production no...IFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on Oct. 28, 2021. Presenters: Jessica Leight (IFPRI); Emily Gallagher (CIFOR); and Kate Ambler (IFPRI). More information at https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
Mobilizing Youth within Phase 2 CGIAR CRPsIFPRI-PIM
Joint presentation by CIRAD Research Director Bruno Losch and PIM Director Karen Brooks at the CGIAR workshop on youth in agriculture and its role in the second phase of CGIAR. Research Programs (CRPs).
CGIAR Consortium Office, Montpellier, September 8-9, 2015.
African Farmers, Value Chains, and African DevelopmentIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar/Book Launch, December 9, 2021.
At first glance, African smallholder farmers might seem unproductive, as their crops yield much less than potential and are often of variable quality. A new PIM-supported book “African Farmers, Value Chains, and Agricultural Development” argues that in fact they are largely producing following rational economic decisions, and that this situation is a consequence of the economic and institutional environment in which they produce. The authors Alan de Brauw and Erwin Bulte discuss ways that different types of transaction costs limit their market opportunities in general, including transport costs but also costs related to different sources of risks, trust, market power, liquidity, and even storage.
More information and full webinar recording: https://bit.ly/3rMpdTi
This document discusses pathways for reducing rural poverty in West and Central Africa through agricultural research and development. It outlines that agricultural growth can reduce poverty by raising farm incomes and generating employment. However, challenges remain, including barriers that can prevent the poor from benefitting from increased agricultural productivity. The document argues that multidimensional, multisector partnerships are needed to address the complex and diverse causes of rural poverty in sustainable ways. Agricultural research must work with other sectors and take smallholder farmers' needs into account to promote inclusive rural prosperity.
1) Agricultural research is a key factor for agricultural development but is only one of many factors that influence rural prosperity. Understanding rural and territorial development as well as the rural-urban interface is important for rethinking agricultural research pathways.
2) Partnerships are needed for agricultural research to have impact on reducing rural poverty since pathways to impact are long, wide, and involve many other public, private, and civil society actors.
3) Agricultural research must be rethought to engage with national sustainable food systems at the rural-urban interface where many opportunities and challenges exist due to urbanization, diet changes, and food market transformations.
Feminization of Agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current cha...IFPRI-PIM
This document discusses a webinar on the feminization of agriculture. It presents four grants that studied this topic using qualitative and quantitative methods in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The grants analyzed how decision-making, labor, and social norms are changing in wheat farming in South Asia. They explored employment opportunities for women and youth in agricultural value chains. They also developed a methodology to identify the drivers of feminization across scales and validated these findings in communities. The webinar discussed how to better measure the roles of women and youth in high-value agricultural activities.
Climate resilience and job prospects for young people in agricultureIFPRI-PIM
Climate change matters for all people. Does it matter particularly for young people? If so, where and how?
PIM Webinar, February 7, 2019.
Presenters: Karen Brooks, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University and Keith Wiebe, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI.
For more information, slides, and podcast visit http://bit.ly/CRJYwebr
What determines public budgets for agricultural growth in the developing world?IFPRI-PIM
Webinar by Tewodaj Mogues, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on Sept 26, 2017. See abstract here: https://pim.cgiar.org/2017/09/18/webinar-what-determines-public-budgets-for-agricultural-growth-in-the-developing-world/ Fourth webinar in PIM's 2017 series (https://pim.cgiar.org/2017/05/11/pim-monthly-webinars-may-october-2017/)
Methods for studying gender dynamics in value chains beyond the production no...IFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on Oct. 28, 2021. Presenters: Jessica Leight (IFPRI); Emily Gallagher (CIFOR); and Kate Ambler (IFPRI). More information at https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
Mobilizing Youth within Phase 2 CGIAR CRPsIFPRI-PIM
Joint presentation by CIRAD Research Director Bruno Losch and PIM Director Karen Brooks at the CGIAR workshop on youth in agriculture and its role in the second phase of CGIAR. Research Programs (CRPs).
CGIAR Consortium Office, Montpellier, September 8-9, 2015.
African Farmers, Value Chains, and African DevelopmentIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar/Book Launch, December 9, 2021.
At first glance, African smallholder farmers might seem unproductive, as their crops yield much less than potential and are often of variable quality. A new PIM-supported book “African Farmers, Value Chains, and Agricultural Development” argues that in fact they are largely producing following rational economic decisions, and that this situation is a consequence of the economic and institutional environment in which they produce. The authors Alan de Brauw and Erwin Bulte discuss ways that different types of transaction costs limit their market opportunities in general, including transport costs but also costs related to different sources of risks, trust, market power, liquidity, and even storage.
More information and full webinar recording: https://bit.ly/3rMpdTi
This document discusses pathways for reducing rural poverty in West and Central Africa through agricultural research and development. It outlines that agricultural growth can reduce poverty by raising farm incomes and generating employment. However, challenges remain, including barriers that can prevent the poor from benefitting from increased agricultural productivity. The document argues that multidimensional, multisector partnerships are needed to address the complex and diverse causes of rural poverty in sustainable ways. Agricultural research must work with other sectors and take smallholder farmers' needs into account to promote inclusive rural prosperity.
1) Agricultural research is a key factor for agricultural development but is only one of many factors that influence rural prosperity. Understanding rural and territorial development as well as the rural-urban interface is important for rethinking agricultural research pathways.
2) Partnerships are needed for agricultural research to have impact on reducing rural poverty since pathways to impact are long, wide, and involve many other public, private, and civil society actors.
3) Agricultural research must be rethought to engage with national sustainable food systems at the rural-urban interface where many opportunities and challenges exist due to urbanization, diet changes, and food market transformations.
Feminization of Agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current cha...IFPRI-PIM
This document discusses a webinar on the feminization of agriculture. It presents four grants that studied this topic using qualitative and quantitative methods in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The grants analyzed how decision-making, labor, and social norms are changing in wheat farming in South Asia. They explored employment opportunities for women and youth in agricultural value chains. They also developed a methodology to identify the drivers of feminization across scales and validated these findings in communities. The webinar discussed how to better measure the roles of women and youth in high-value agricultural activities.
Agricultural research does not always clearly reduce poverty according to the evidence presented. While increasing food production could help reduce hunger, poverty is ultimately a problem of lack of income. The impact of new technologies on poor farmers and laborers depends on factors like access to inputs, land ownership, and effects on food prices. Past examples like the Green Revolution showed both benefits and unintended consequences that varied between individuals. The profile and economic context of the poor in Africa today is more diverse than in the past, requiring nuanced approaches from agricultural research that support broader economic transformation and growth.
Webinar: COVID-19 risk and food value chains (presentation 2)IFPRI-PIM
Presentation "COVID-19 risk and food value chains: Insights from India" by Sudha Narayanan, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
More info and full recording of this webinar:
https://bit.ly/COVID-FVC
1) South Asia faces challenges of poverty and malnutrition despite strong economic growth, with over 300 million people living in poverty.
2) Key pathways to reduce poverty through agriculture include diversification, increasing productivity for small farmers, improving gender equality and nutrition, and building climate resilience.
3) Drivers along these pathways include public investments, access to credit and markets, water management technologies, empowering women, and regional cooperation.
Agricultural extension and rural advisory services: From research to actionIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar, 11 November 2021 // Presentation of innovative interventions that can be applied and adapted to enhance extension performance // Summary of agricultural extension research supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Event page (full recording): https://bit.ly/3jRTRWy
See more on www.pim.cgiar.org
Agricultural research can contribute to rural prosperity through direct, indirect, and intra-household pathways. A presentation on Ethiopia's experience showed that agricultural growth from factors like intensification of inputs, technical change from research, and complementary investments was a major driver of poverty reduction over the past decade. Key policy considerations for maximizing these pathways include sustained investment in agricultural research across disciplines; ensuring access to land, water, inputs, and markets; complementary public investments in infrastructure and education; and understanding differentiated policy impacts to address equity.
Does Strengthening Extension at the Meso Level Improve Quality at the Village...IFPRI-PIM
Evidence from the USAID Strengthening Agricultural and Nutrition Extension (SANE) Activity. Presentation by Paul McNamara, AgReach (March 5, 2020). For more details, visit http://bit.ly/FutureAgExt
This document summarizes discussions from a breakout session on understanding the links between agricultural innovation processes and delivering development impacts at scale. It outlines two case studies of interventions that successfully scaled - poultry vaccines for Newcastle disease in Africa and programs in Northeast Brazil to address extreme rural poverty. Key elements for innovation success identified include evidence of technology effectiveness, identifying applicable business models, supportive government policies, gender inclusion, capacity building, and flexibility. The document proposes elements for an analytical framework to guide research on relationships, institutions, and policies that enable innovation and poverty impact, including impact and innovation typologies as well as decision domains.
Presentation by Olu Ajayi (PHD) from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and rural Cooperation (CTA), at the workshop on Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa Region: Case studies and lessons from 02 to 04 November 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
Accounting for gender-related structures of agricultural value chainsIFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Tanguy Bernard, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
This document summarizes a presentation about using the LandInfo mobile app technology to improve agricultural productivity and climate change resilience in Africa. It discusses ATPS's Climate Sense Program which aims to provide evidence-based strategies for climate-proofing development programs. The LandInfo app connects users to cloud-based data on land potential, allowing farmers and pastoralists to make informed land management decisions. Research shows the app has increased yields, incomes and cooperation while supporting climate adaptation and mitigation. The presentation calls for mainstreaming LandInfo in agriculture and land development policies and integrating it into education to promote wider adoption across Africa.
Inclusive international agricultural value chains: The case of coffee in Ethi...IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Bart Minten, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
Webinar: Strengthening food value chains IFPRI-PIM
This webinar on Oct. 27, 2020, organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and Food Security Portal, presented findings from the recent CGIAR research on food value chains in three regions. Full recording and more details available at https://bit.ly/341JAiO
COVID-19 and agricultural value chains: Impacts and adaptationsIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on November 29, 2021.
Presenters: Ben Belton - Global Lead, Social and Economic Inclusion, WorldFish
Diego Naziri – value chain and postharvest specialist, International Potato Center (CIP); Leader of “Nutritious Food and Value Added through Post-harvest Innovation” research flagship in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)
Gashaw Tadesse Abate - Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Abut Hayat Md. Saiful Islam – Professor at Department of Agricultural Economics at Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
Marcel Gatto – Agricultural Economist at the International Potato Center (CIP).
Humnath Bhandari - Senior Agricultural Economist and Country Representative, IRRI Bangladesh.
G.M. Monirul Alam - Professor, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh.
Full recording of the webinar available at https://bit.ly/3DN18in
Improving Research Engagement to Support Policy and Institutional ChangeIFPRI-PIM
Webinar recorded on 23 Sept. 2020, co-organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems, and Collaborating for Resilience (CoRe).
Too often, research aiming to inform public policies or strengthen institutions for effective policy implementation remains disconnected from the real political economy of policy and institutional reform. This webinar introduces a new rubric to assess opportunities for research partnerships that navigate this complex terrain of power and leverage sometimes unexpected spaces of engagement.
Full recording at https://bit.ly/2GFIdx1.
Presentation by Catherine Mungai from the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) at the workshop on Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa Region: Case studies and lessons from 02 to 04 November 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
During the webinar, the speakers promoted a set of training materials that is freely available for those interested in learning more about the implementation of NDCs in the agriculture sector in Africa.
More info about the webinar: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/implementing-ndcs-agriculture-sector-across-africa-what-directions-capacity-building#.XxaxH_gzbfZ
Agricultural research does not always clearly reduce poverty according to the evidence presented. While increasing food production could help reduce hunger, poverty is ultimately a problem of lack of income. The impact of new technologies on poor farmers and laborers depends on factors like access to inputs, land ownership, and effects on food prices. Past examples like the Green Revolution showed both benefits and unintended consequences that varied between individuals. The profile and economic context of the poor in Africa today is more diverse than in the past, requiring nuanced approaches from agricultural research that support broader economic transformation and growth.
Webinar: COVID-19 risk and food value chains (presentation 2)IFPRI-PIM
Presentation "COVID-19 risk and food value chains: Insights from India" by Sudha Narayanan, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
More info and full recording of this webinar:
https://bit.ly/COVID-FVC
1) South Asia faces challenges of poverty and malnutrition despite strong economic growth, with over 300 million people living in poverty.
2) Key pathways to reduce poverty through agriculture include diversification, increasing productivity for small farmers, improving gender equality and nutrition, and building climate resilience.
3) Drivers along these pathways include public investments, access to credit and markets, water management technologies, empowering women, and regional cooperation.
Agricultural extension and rural advisory services: From research to actionIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar, 11 November 2021 // Presentation of innovative interventions that can be applied and adapted to enhance extension performance // Summary of agricultural extension research supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Event page (full recording): https://bit.ly/3jRTRWy
See more on www.pim.cgiar.org
Agricultural research can contribute to rural prosperity through direct, indirect, and intra-household pathways. A presentation on Ethiopia's experience showed that agricultural growth from factors like intensification of inputs, technical change from research, and complementary investments was a major driver of poverty reduction over the past decade. Key policy considerations for maximizing these pathways include sustained investment in agricultural research across disciplines; ensuring access to land, water, inputs, and markets; complementary public investments in infrastructure and education; and understanding differentiated policy impacts to address equity.
Does Strengthening Extension at the Meso Level Improve Quality at the Village...IFPRI-PIM
Evidence from the USAID Strengthening Agricultural and Nutrition Extension (SANE) Activity. Presentation by Paul McNamara, AgReach (March 5, 2020). For more details, visit http://bit.ly/FutureAgExt
This document summarizes discussions from a breakout session on understanding the links between agricultural innovation processes and delivering development impacts at scale. It outlines two case studies of interventions that successfully scaled - poultry vaccines for Newcastle disease in Africa and programs in Northeast Brazil to address extreme rural poverty. Key elements for innovation success identified include evidence of technology effectiveness, identifying applicable business models, supportive government policies, gender inclusion, capacity building, and flexibility. The document proposes elements for an analytical framework to guide research on relationships, institutions, and policies that enable innovation and poverty impact, including impact and innovation typologies as well as decision domains.
Presentation by Olu Ajayi (PHD) from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and rural Cooperation (CTA), at the workshop on Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa Region: Case studies and lessons from 02 to 04 November 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
Accounting for gender-related structures of agricultural value chainsIFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Tanguy Bernard, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
This document summarizes a presentation about using the LandInfo mobile app technology to improve agricultural productivity and climate change resilience in Africa. It discusses ATPS's Climate Sense Program which aims to provide evidence-based strategies for climate-proofing development programs. The LandInfo app connects users to cloud-based data on land potential, allowing farmers and pastoralists to make informed land management decisions. Research shows the app has increased yields, incomes and cooperation while supporting climate adaptation and mitigation. The presentation calls for mainstreaming LandInfo in agriculture and land development policies and integrating it into education to promote wider adoption across Africa.
Inclusive international agricultural value chains: The case of coffee in Ethi...IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Bart Minten, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
Webinar: Strengthening food value chains IFPRI-PIM
This webinar on Oct. 27, 2020, organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and Food Security Portal, presented findings from the recent CGIAR research on food value chains in three regions. Full recording and more details available at https://bit.ly/341JAiO
COVID-19 and agricultural value chains: Impacts and adaptationsIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on November 29, 2021.
Presenters: Ben Belton - Global Lead, Social and Economic Inclusion, WorldFish
Diego Naziri – value chain and postharvest specialist, International Potato Center (CIP); Leader of “Nutritious Food and Value Added through Post-harvest Innovation” research flagship in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)
Gashaw Tadesse Abate - Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Abut Hayat Md. Saiful Islam – Professor at Department of Agricultural Economics at Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
Marcel Gatto – Agricultural Economist at the International Potato Center (CIP).
Humnath Bhandari - Senior Agricultural Economist and Country Representative, IRRI Bangladesh.
G.M. Monirul Alam - Professor, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh.
Full recording of the webinar available at https://bit.ly/3DN18in
Improving Research Engagement to Support Policy and Institutional ChangeIFPRI-PIM
Webinar recorded on 23 Sept. 2020, co-organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems, and Collaborating for Resilience (CoRe).
Too often, research aiming to inform public policies or strengthen institutions for effective policy implementation remains disconnected from the real political economy of policy and institutional reform. This webinar introduces a new rubric to assess opportunities for research partnerships that navigate this complex terrain of power and leverage sometimes unexpected spaces of engagement.
Full recording at https://bit.ly/2GFIdx1.
Presentation by Catherine Mungai from the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) at the workshop on Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa Region: Case studies and lessons from 02 to 04 November 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
During the webinar, the speakers promoted a set of training materials that is freely available for those interested in learning more about the implementation of NDCs in the agriculture sector in Africa.
More info about the webinar: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/implementing-ndcs-agriculture-sector-across-africa-what-directions-capacity-building#.XxaxH_gzbfZ
10 March 2022. The 3rd Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial Review (BR) Report was endorsed by the assembly of African Heads of State and Government during 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government in February 2022. In the 3rd BR cycle, 51 countries (out of 55) reported performance across 46 indicators.
The document summarizes experiences from the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS). It discusses how agricultural extension and advisory services (AEAS) in Africa have evolved from a traditional focus on technology transfer to facilitating innovation systems and supporting farmers' organizations. It outlines challenges faced by national AEAS and reforms underway, such as decentralization and pluralism. The document also reviews evidence that extension can significantly and positively impact knowledge, adoption and productivity when effective policies support well-organized extension systems. Finally, it provides examples of AFAAS's work strengthening country forums and networks and building partnerships around advisory services in Africa.
This document summarizes a workshop on SNAP at farmers markets. It introduces the presenters and discusses goals of the workshop which are to offer design decisions for SNAP programs, understand farmers market characteristics, identify policies impacting SNAP, and discover benefits of partnerships. It then covers topics like what has been learned about SNAP at markets, challenges, indicators for evaluating success, and lessons learned.
Integrating and alignment of policy commitments:
Lessons from an assessment of country NAIPs
Sheryl Hendriks, Moraka Makhura, Nic Olivier, Nokuthula Vilakazi and Nosipho Mabuza, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Gender in the East Africa Dairy Development ProjectILRI
Presented by Isabelle Baltenweck and Gerald Mutinda at the Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013
Kristin Davis, Guush Berhane, Catherine Mthinda, Ephraim Nkonya
WEBINAR
East Africa Perspectives on the Book: Agricultural Extension – Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries
OCT 28, 2020 - 03:30 PM TO 05:00 PM SAST
Potential Synergies between CAADP National Investment Planning and Farming Sy...FMNR Hub
1) The document discusses potential synergies between the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) National Investment Plans and a Farming Systems approach.
2) It identifies opportunities for Farming Systems information to strengthen CAADP by mainstreaming land management in investment plans and identifies gaps in current implementation.
3) A Farming Systems framework could complement commodity-based value chain targeting in CAADP plans by providing a more nuanced understanding of agricultural production systems and the relationships between farming and non-farm activities.
Presentation by CCAFS/IITA researchers to Tanzania Members of Parliament, Sept. 13, 2017. Offers research findings on gender budgeting, policy analysis, and climate change adaptation.
Mobile technology role in driving efficiency to agricultural economiesHeba Assem
Mobile technology can play a key role in improving agricultural efficiency and farmers' livelihoods. It has the potential to increase farmers' incomes by 30% through services like M-PESA in Kenya, which allows farmers to send and receive money more easily. Mobile phones can also provide farmers with important agricultural information via SMS, help monitor government services to farmers in Tanzania, and provide storm warnings to fishing communities in Bangladesh. However, challenges like lack of awareness, infrastructure issues, and high operating costs must be addressed through partnerships between governments, NGOs, mobile providers and others to fully realize mobile's opportunities in agriculture.
The document outlines the achievements of the PNG Women in Agriculture Development Foundation in empowering rural women farmers in Papua New Guinea. The Foundation uses a "farmer to farmer needs driven extension approach" where women service providers deliver agricultural support and training to registered women farmer groups. This approach has improved food security, increased production and incomes, and given rural women a voice. The Foundation recommends expanding this model of participatory, farmer-led extension to further develop partnerships between smallholders and the private sector.
The Imperative of Extension: Lessons from Recent MEAS ExperienceMEAS
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on lessons learned from recent experiences strengthening agricultural extension services. It argues that investing in extension is critical to reducing rural poverty and increasing agricultural productivity. It highlights several country examples where strengthened extension contributed to agricultural growth, poverty reduction, and improved nutrition outcomes. It also identifies some common challenges facing extension systems, such as weak research linkages, low and unpredictable financing, and lack of coordination among actors. Overall it advocates for continued efforts to strengthen extension through policies that enable pluralism, improve human and institutional capacity, and foster partnerships.
Coordination between social protection and agriculture: the key issuesFAO
http://www.fao.org/economic/PtoP/en/
Presented during the From Protection to Production project Consultative Workshop, 17-18 September 2013, Accra, Ghana
The From Protection to Production (PtoP) project is a multi-country impact evaluation of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is a collaborative effort between the FAO, the UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office and the governments of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Project activities are mainly funded by the Regular Fund, the DFID Research and Evidence Division and the EU.
(1) The study examines why rural youth in Maugo irrigation scheme, Homa Bay County, Kenya have moved from rice farming to operating motorcycle taxis ("boda boda" business).
(2) Key findings show rural youth are drawn to boda boda work for quick money and social bonds, while rice farming offers low returns, lack of credit, and human disease burdens.
(3) While the government and stakeholders have made efforts, the study concludes rural youth movement results from complex social, economic, and cultural reasons, recommending improved collaboration, health initiatives, entrepreneurship training, and alternative enterprises to address the multiple influencing factors.
CEGA's Contribution in Open Economic Governance in South Africaopengovpartnership
CEGAA works to promote open economic governance related to health budgets and spending in South Africa. It conducts district-level budget monitoring of health, HIV/AIDS, and TB spending to increase transparency and accountability. It aims to empower communities to participate in budget processes and track local expenditures to improve health services and ensure resources are used effectively.
Similar to Power, politics, and governance in the food system: Applications to Africa (20)
Cash transfers and intimate partner violence: Case studies from Ethiopia and ...IFPRI-PIM
Webinar organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative in support of the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign. More information and full recording available at https://bit.ly/3pOlJx0
Tenure Security and Landscape Governance of Natural ResourcesIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on December 7, 2021. For more information and the recording of the webinar, and to access the briefs, visit https://bit.ly/3xZDBs6
Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains: Innovations, Scaling, and Way ForwardIFPRI-PIM
In the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), market and related aspects have been mostly addressed by PIM Flagship 3: Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains. The team has been focusing on the evolving international, regional, and local contexts for agricultural markets, and investigating how value chains (VC) can be strengthened to generate more benefits for smallholders and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), with differentiated opportunities for women, men, and youth. In this webinar on 22 November 2021, the team presented key findings from the Flagship’s work in 2017-2021 in three areas: 1) value chain innovations, 2) use of value chains for scaling CGIAR solutions, and 3) interactions between research and practice for value chain development.
For more information about this webinar and to access the full recording, visit https://bit.ly/3c6siV5.
Gender dynamics in value chains: Beyond production node and a single commodit...IFPRI-PIM
1. Women have less decision-making power and asset ownership compared to men, especially in intensive value chains.
2. Intensive value chains use more purchased inputs like fertilizers and hired labor, resulting in higher yields. However, extension services mainly target men.
3. Women do most of the labor in crop establishment and post-harvest handling while men do more field management.
4. Controlling for other factors, sweet potato yields are lower on female-managed farms compared to male-managed farms, indicating a gender productivity gap.
Myths about the feminization of agriculture: Implications for global food sec...IFPRI-PIM
This document summarizes a webinar that challenged four common myths about the feminization of agriculture and its implications for global food security.
The webinar debunked the myths that 1) feminization is the predominant global trend, 2) feminization is bad for agriculture, 3) women left behind are passive victims, and 4) all women farmers face similar challenges. It highlighted that roles and opportunities for men and women vary widely by context. Addressing structural disadvantages faced by women farmers, recognizing their contributions to household food security, and tailoring interventions to different groups of women are important for improving agricultural production and food systems. More research is needed on changing rural labor patterns and their impacts on food security for various communities
Measuring employment and consumption in household surveys: Reflections from t...IFPRI-PIM
Webinar organized the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets, led by IFPRI, on July 13, 2021.
Presentations:
- Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods (Sylvan Herskowitz, Research Fellow, IFPRI)
- Assessing response fatigue in phone survey: Experimental evidence on dietary diversity in Ethiopia (Kibrom Abay, Research Fellow, IFPRI)
- Telescoping causes overstatement in recalled food consumption: Evidence from a survey experiment in Ethiopia (Kalle Hirvonen, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI)
Discussant: Andrew Dillon, Clinical Associate Professor of Development Economics within Kellogg's Public-Private Interface Initiative (KPPI); Director of Research Methods Cluster in the Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University.
Moderator: Kate Ambler, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
More info and full recording: https://bit.ly/2TrpaNF
Webinar about the new book "Value Chain Development and The Poor: Promise, delivery, and opportunities for impact at scale" (eds. Jason Donovan, Dietmar Stoian, and Jon Hellin), recorded on June 17, 2021. For more information and video recording, visit https://bit.ly/3goPP5r
Feminization of agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current cha...IFPRI-PIM
This PIM webinar recorded on Jun 10, 2021 presents the findings from five projects that comprised a set of PIM grants on Feminization of Agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current challenges and opportunities. Research teams from across CGIAR worked since 2018 to explore the dynamics and impacts of migration, including male-outmigration, on gender relations in agriculture and natural resource domains. More info: https://bit.ly/FemofAg1
Beyond agriculture: Measuring agri-food system GDP and employmentIFPRI-PIM
Webinar with James Thurlow (IFPRI/CGIAR-PIM) presenting a new approach for measuring agri-food system GDP and employment. (Recorded on April 8, 2021)
More info and full recording: https://bit.ly/mafsGDP
Webinar: COVID-19 risk and food value chains (presentation 3)IFPRI-PIM
Presentation "COVID-19 Impacts on Fish Value Chains in Nigeria" by Ben Belton, MSU/WorldFish.
More info and recording of this webinar:
https://bit.ly/COVID-FVC
Webinar: COVID-19 risk and food value chains (presentation 1)IFPRI-PIM
Presentation "Food Consumption and Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Addis Ababa" by Kalle Hirvoven, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
PUBLISHING AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNALS:WRITI...IFPRI-PIM
This webinar, the 3rd and final in the series “Publishing Agricultural Development Research in Social Science Journals”, focuses on the specifics of the referee process—how (and why) to do good reviews, and how to respond to referee comments received. The session includes sample “revise and resubmit” reviews.
More info about the series: https://bit.ly/PublishingAgRes
PUBLISHING AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNALS: Advi...IFPRI-PIM
This webinar, the 2nd in the series “Publishing Agricultural Development Research in Social Science Journals”, offers a panel discussion amongst editors or associate editors of leading journals, addressing what they look for in submissions, how to avoid “desk rejections”, how to handle reviews, proofing, and publicizing articles.
More info about the series and full recordings: https://bit.ly/PublishingAgRes
Migration and gender dynamics in irrigation governance in NepalIFPRI-PIM
Slide deck for the webinar on Nov. 25, 2020, co-organized by the Farmer Managed Irrigation System Promotion Trust (FMIST), Nepal; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); International Water Management Institute (IWMI); CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). More details and full recording: https://bit.ly/36SFxWv
PUBLISHING AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNALSIFPRI-PIM
Webinar #1, recorded on Nov. 23, 2020: "The Journal Publication Landscape"
Presenters: Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI/PIM) and Cheryl Doss (Oxford/PIM)
More details about the series of webinars: https://bit.ly/PublishingAgRes
Domestic support disciplines for the 21st century: A blueprint for the WTO Tw...IFPRI-PIM
The document discusses various scenarios for reforming domestic agricultural support policies through changes to limits on Overall Trade Distorting Support (OTDS) and product-specific caps. It analyzes the impacts of different scenarios on world prices, trade volumes, production, and exports of certain commodities. Key variables include the base years and methodology for calculating value of production, thresholds for developing vs developed countries, timelines for phased reductions, and treatments for special products and cotton. Modeling results are presented to compare outcomes across scenarios. Recommendations emphasize the need for simplified rules, special treatment for developing countries, and properly defined caps to avoid loopholes.
Assessing the functionality of the District Agricultural Extension Services S...IFPRI-PIM
1. The document outlines SANE's approach to strengthening the District Agricultural Extension Services System (DAESS) in Malawi through participatory capacity building and materials development.
2. Key activities included clarifying roles and responsibilities through implementation guides and standard operating procedures, field testing the materials, and providing training to platforms at district and community levels.
3. Results showed improved understanding of the extension system, institutional and human capacity strengthening of platforms, and better coordination and collaboration across stakeholders in agricultural extension.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Travis Hills' Endeavors in Minnesota: Fostering Environmental and Economic Pr...Travis Hills MN
Travis Hills of Minnesota developed a method to convert waste into high-value dry fertilizer, significantly enriching soil quality. By providing farmers with a valuable resource derived from waste, Travis Hills helps enhance farm profitability while promoting environmental stewardship. Travis Hills' sustainable practices lead to cost savings and increased revenue for farmers by improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
Power, politics, and governance in the food system: Applications to Africa
1.
2. More Crowded Policy Agenda for
Agriculture in Africa
Climate smart
Nutrition sensitive
Employment generating
Gender inclusive
25 million farm households practice CSA by 2025
(Africa Climate Smart Agricultural Visions 25x25)
Reduce stunting to 10% and underweight by 5%
by 2025 (AU Malabo Declaration)
Address urban obesity (Milan Urban Food Policy
Pact)
Create job opportunities for at least 30% of the
youth in agricultural value chains
(AU Malabo Declaration)
20% of rural women are empowered in
agriculture by 2023
(AU Malabo Evaluation Framework)
3. More Attention to the Agrifood System
to Achieve these Goals
Components
of Food
System
Productivity
enhancing
Regulatory Market-based Transfers Behavioral
Farming
Processing
Retail
Consumption
Infrastructure,
Ag R&D
expenditures,
input
subsidies
Land policy,
labor policy,
intellectual
property
guidelines,
food safety
Fiscal policy,
procurement
policies, trade
policy
Cash transfer
programs,
food subsidies
Model farmer
extension
techniques,
consumer
education
initiatives,
safe food
handling
training
Range of needed policy interventions
4. Political and Governance Considerations
to Achieve Needed Policy Interventions
Alignment - degree to which relevant stakeholders share the same interests
▪ Short versus long-term
▪ Low versus high visibility
▪ Trade-offs in harmed constituencies
▪ Ideational
Examples: input subsidy reform in Zambia, devolution of agriculture in Ghana
Capacity - presence of funding, human resources, training, and infrastructure
Example: Informal food trade in Nigeria
Commitment - sustainability of policy beyond mandates of leader or time period
Example: Nigerian land governance reform
Coordination - modalities to minimize duplication, maximize information flows, and avoid contradictions
▪ Horizontal
▪ Vertical
▪ Business-state
Example: Informal food trade in Nigeria
6. Alignment of Incentives:
Input subsidy reform in Zambia
Why did the adoption of an e-voucher for subsidized inputs in Zambia fail in
2013 but succeed in 2015?
Background
• On the policy agenda since 2008
• Subsidizes a more diverse range of inputs besides maize seed and fertilizer
• Farmers go directly to agro-dealers so reduces admin costs and improves
timeliness of input distribution
• More companies can participate and less opaque tendering
Data and methods
• Semi-structured interviews with multiple stakeholders
• Review of donor documents, Ministry of Agriculture reports, peer-reviewed
literature, media reports, and Parliamentary Hansards
• Analysis using the Kaleidoscope Model of Food Security Policy Change
FISP E-voucher Visa cards
Source: PMRC
7. Input Subsidy Reform in Zambia
Key findings: Zambia’s implementation of e-voucher in 2015 depended on winning over key veto players
who stymied the reform in 2013
Positions in 2013 Positions in 2015
Source: Resnick et al. (2018a)
8. Alignment of Incentives:
Devolution of Agriculture in Ghana
What has been the impact of devolving agricultural functions to district
governments in Ghana?
Background
• Local Instrument 1961 adopted in 2009 to initiate devolution
• Agriculture formally devolved in 2012
• Staff became members of Local Government Services and composite
budgeting system established
Data and methods
• Survey with 80 District Directors of Agriculture across all 10 regions
• Survey with 960 households
• District-level budget data
Survey Sites
9. Devolution of Agriculture in Ghana
Composite
budgets
District devt plans &
composite budgets
MoFEP - Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning
MoFA - Ministry of Food & Agriculture
NDPC - National Development Planning
Commission
MLGRD - Ministry of Local Government & Rural
Development
RADUs - Regional Agriculture Departments
RCCs - Regional Coordinating Councils
MMDAs - Metropolitan, Municipal, District
Assemblies
LGS - Local Government Services
MoFA NDPC
MoFEP
MMDAS
LGS
District devt plans
Ag planning & monitoring
Intergovernmental transfers
Transfers & internally generated funds
Ag donor funding & national
programs
Rural Households
Service Delivery
MLGRD
Hiring, firing, promotions
Department of Agriculture
10. Devolution of Agriculture in Ghana
Increase in Actual Public Works Expenditures, by District
Notes: The budgets are all in constant 2012 GHS
Source: Resnick (2018)
Decline in Actual Agricultural Expenditures, by District
11. Devolution of Agriculture in Ghana
Key findings
Locally elected government politicians prefer using budget for
schools and clinics than for low visibility agricultural extension
• Local governments receive better information about citizen
priorities and pursue “preference matching”
• Households appreciate increased accountability that local
politicians have to citizens through devolution
• BUT, if politicians preference match, then increased accountability
can result in decreased provision of goods and services that
citizens do not prioritize, especially low “visibility” goods and
services
Ag extension motorbikes donated by Canada sitting idle
due to no fuel or licenses, Shai Osudoku, 2019
Photo: Danielle Resnick, IFPRI
12. Commitment:
Land Governance Reform in Nigeria
Why have some states in Nigeria proceeded further with systematic land tenure regularization (SLTR)
than others?
Background
• Land governance reform a priority with the AU Declaration on Land, FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines, and
World Bank’s Land Governance Assessment Framework
• In 2009, late president set up President’s Technical Committee on Land Reform
• SLTR adopted as option in Nigeria after similar success in Rwanda, South Africa, and Thailand
Data and methods
• Semi-structured interviews with more than 90 stakeholders in 6 states
• Focused on seven components of implementation
13. Land Governance Reform in Nigeria
Key findings
• SLTR never driven by citizen demand
• Implementation was higher where
• There was continuity in political administration across elections
• Donors did not bypass Ministries of Land or cede key functions to external consultants
• Diversity in donor support ensured more funding for rolling out the reform
Indicators of implementation Cross River Jigawa Kaduna Kano Katsina Ondo
GIS set up Yes Partially Yes Yes No No
Land records digitized Yes Partially Yes Yes No Yes
Certificates of Occupancy titled Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Certificates of Occupancy issued Yes Yes No Yes No Nob
Budget line for SLTR Yes Yes No Yes No No
Continued cash release for SLTR No Yes No Yes No No
SLTR still ongoing? a Partially Yes No Yes No No
Source: Resnick and Okumo (2017)
Notes: a As of December 2016. b Only three CfOs were issued in Ondo.
14. Coordination & Capacity:
Informal Food Safety in Nigeria
How do local governments ensure access to safe food from informal
traders in Nigerian cities?
Background
• Informal markets and traders are major source of food for urban poor
• Food safety hazards are common in informal and wet markets
• Local governments in Nigeria often have a mandate over informal trade
Data and methods
• Survey with 1,097 informal food traders in Calabar and Minna
• Semi-structured interviews with state and LGA level officials for
institutional mapping
Source: Karl Pauw, IFPRI
Butcher, Tamale Central Market, Ghana
Street Vendor, Lusaka, Zambia
Source: Bhavna Sivasubramanian , IFPRI
15. Informal Food Safety in Nigeria’s
Secondary Cities
Calabar, Nigeria Minna, Nigeria
Source: Resnick et al. (2018)
Confusing Array of Actors Regulating Informal Food Trade
16. Informal Food Safety in Nigeria’s
Secondary Cities
Official Calabar Minna
Local government
market managers
18.7 21.2
LGA health officers 6.4 4.4
LGA revenue
officers
33.8 22.8
State-level
authorities
2.1 0.4
Task Force 23.2 0.9
Police 1.9 1.0
None 13.0 49.4
Other 0.9 0.0
Total observations 530 567
Service Calabar Minna
Trash collection 43.1 44.5
Toilets 62.1 36.2
Electricity 40.2 66.1
Clean, running water 16.7 8.9
Safe storage facilities
for merchandise
28.3 37.6
Shelter during bad
weather
28.3 55.2
Fire extinguishers 2.2 1.1
Security 74.3 82.5
Health facilities 1.9 2.9
Proper drainage 15.2 53.7
Total observations 269 348
Notes: Since access to services was limited to those who worked inside a market, the
number of observations is smaller than for the entire sample of informal traders.
Source: Resnick et al. (2018)
Government Official that Traders Engage with
Most Often in the Course of a Month (%)
Share of Respondents Reporting Access to Key
Services in the Market (%)
Source: Resnick et al. (2018)
17. Informal Food Safety in Nigeria’s
Secondary Cities
Key findings and policy options
• Food traders in Nigeria’s secondary cities operate in environment of benign neglect rather than
harsh repression, as in Lagos
• Multiplicity of mandates across government entities, confusion over accountability among food
vendors, low capacity to enforce
• Support “market leaders” to help monitor sanitation guidelines
• Develop scorecards to identify worst-affected markets to target enforcement
18. Politics and Governance for Policy Change
Agrifood system transformation key for delivering on the many agendas of
governments and donors, requiring policy interventions in many domains
• Alignment, capacity, coordination, and commitment key for effective
implementation
Identify ways to align technically optimal solutions with interests of veto
players
• If alignment involves trade-offs across policy goals, need to look at sequencing and
triage
Assess degree of needed commitment to have impact and whether there
is a realistic alignment of interests to sustain it
• Interventions that involve wholesale bureaucratic and cultural reforms are not
achievable in a 5-year donor cycle (e.g. land reform)
Consolidate responsibilities over informal food trade to recognize capacity
constraints and disincentives to cooperative
• Avoid regulatory frameworks that cannot be realistically enforced
Pres. Lungu launches e-
voucher, Oct.2015
Source: Lusaka Times
19. What’s Next?
Governance of informal food trade in African cities
• Expand Nigerian research to Ghana
• Analyzing survey of 1,200 traders in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale to understand when and why…
• Food safety regulations and trading laws are enforced
• Traders receive services (garbage collection, drainage, etc) in exchange for their tax payments
Binding constraints to local government capacity
• Completed interviews with over 200 bureaucrats and elected politicians in 4 Zambian provinces to
understand…
• Extent of financing for local development
• Degree to which a mayor’s party affects the autonomy a council receives from national government
• How political interference by elected councilors affects bureaucrats’ motivation and career aspirations
• Input into the Decentralization Secretariat’s revised Decentralization Implementation Plan for 2019
20. References
Resnick, D. and A. Okumo. 2017. “Subnational variation in policy implementation: The case of Nigerian land
governance reform.” Nigeria Strategy Support Program Paper 46. Washington, DC: IFPRI.
Resnick, D. 2018. “The Devolution Revolution: Implications for agricultural service delivery in Ghana.” IFPRI Discussion
Paper No. 1714. Washington, DC: IFPRI.
Resnick, D., S. Haggblade, S. Babu, S. Hendriks, and D. Mather. 2018a. “The Kaleidoscope Model of Policy Change:
Applications for food security policy in Zambia.” World Development. Vol.109(September): 101-120.
Resnick, D., B. Sivasubramanian, C.Idiong, M. Ojo, and L. Tanko. 2018b. “The Enabling Environment for Informal Food
Traders in Nigeria’s Secondary Cities.” Nigeria Strategy Support Program Paper 59. Washington, DC: IFPRI.
21. Thank you!
For more information:
d.resnick@cgiar.org
http://www.ifpri.org/profile/danielle-resnick
www.danielleresnick.com