Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Food Security Group

News

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  VIDEO - Encouraging and Strengthening Cooperatives

  Published on October 23, 2017
  A video to promote the creation of cooperatives

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  Regional Pesticide Policies in West Africa

  Published on October 13, 2017
  Reports on six countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinée, Mali, and Senegal.

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  AGLC scientists engage with FAO

  Published on October 12, 2017
  What makes coffee so uniquely important for Rwanda’s agricultural growth? The AGLC Team has identified 8 fundamental arguments to support investing in the coffee sector.

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  Soil Health Issues Dominate Fertilizer Policy Consultations

  Published on October 4, 2017
  A new National Fertilizer Policy draft to define the vision for developing the fertilizer industry in Malawi.

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  Enumerator Training Kicks Off Endline Survey for AGLC in Rwanda

  Published on October 3, 2017
  The enumerators, five men and five women, were trained by members of Michigan State University (MSU), including Dr. Aniseh Bro and members of IPAR, including Roger Mugisha

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  Diet transformation in South Eastern Africa

  Published on October 3, 2017
  Diets are transforming in 3 important ways. This means a change in the entire agrifood system. See D. Tschirley's presentation at ILSI.

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  Policy Roundtables in Rwanda Foster Dialogue Among Coffee Sector Stakeholders

  Published on September 29, 2017
  Over the last 18 months, AGLC has offered a series of 10 policy roundtables to improve the capacity of the Rwandan government to implement evidence-based policies supporting the coffee sector.

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  FSP scientist T. Reardon on BBC World Service

  Published on September 25, 2017
  Tom Reardon (FSP C4b, Nigeria, Senegal) interview, 9/25/2017. Africa has increased it's rural-urban supply chain by 700% in 30 years.

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  Use of the ReNAPRI Partial Equilibrium Modelling for Policy Analysis and Crop Outlook Modelling

  Published on September 25, 2017
  Ferdi Meyer. The ReNAPRI Partial-equilibrium initiative Training workshop – Malawi, September 25, 2017

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  Women Farmers “Mind the Gap”

  Published on August 31, 2017
  FSP in Mali compared adoption and intensity of fertilizer use as well as productivity between men and women growers of sorghum within the same households. An AgriLinks post, August 31, 2017