Pandemic impacts on supply chains have differed by type of product. Mechanized production of [...]
Launch event: Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer (AIDA) guides policy makers on potential economic and social impacts
Dalia Elsabbagh, IFPRI Egypt
Investments in agriculture can have broad economic and social impacts. To help developing countries analyze those effects and promote more evidence-based decision-making, IFPRI, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the IFPRI-led CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) created the Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer (AIDA) tool.
Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
Channing Arndt - Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division
Shenggen Fan - Director General of IFPRI
Nick Austin - Director, Agricultural Development, within the Global Development Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the European Commission, Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany announced commitments of more than $790 million to address the impact [...]
Publication: Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt
Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, James Thurlow, Manfred Wiebelt
This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects.
