COVID-19 has disrupted programs that assist vulnerable populations worldwide. In addition to education, schools provide daily meals and other services that many families depend on; when schools closed during the pandemic, those services ceased. Kibrom Abay and colleagues explore the food security consequences 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.
Training: Joint IFPRI-ITCEQ SAM Construction for Tunisia
Mariam Raouf - IFPRI Egypt
In the context of the Agricultural (Arab) Investment Development Analyzer (AIDA) project, IFPRI is collaborating with the Institut Tunisien de la Competitivité et Etudes Quantitatives (ITCEQ) and Société MEDEVA to jointly construct a new regionalized social accounting matrix (SAM) for Tunisia by conducting a series of training sessions.
