Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have witnessed rapid and significant increase in recent months, driven largely by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and associated sanctions im-posed on Russia. Other factors, including governments’ responses and export bans, have also con-tributed to rising prices (Laborde and Mamun 2022). Palm oil and wheat prices increased by 56 and 100 percent in real terms, respectively, between June 2021 and April 2022, with most of the in-crease occurring since February 2022.
NEW PUBLICATION: Land scarcity and input intensification in smallholder irrigated agriculture in Egypt
By Kibrom A. Abay, Hoda El-Enbaby, Lina Abdelfattah, and Clemens Breisinger
Increasing population pressure and population density in many African countries are inducing land scarcity and land constraints. These are expected to trigger various responses and adaptation strategies, including agricultural intensification induced by land scarcity, as postulated by the Boserup hypothesis. However, most empirical evaluations [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Land scarcity impedes sustainable input intensification in smallholder irrigated agriculture: Evidence from Egypt
By Kibrom A. Abay, Hoda El-Enbaby, Lina Abdelfattah, and Clemens Breisinger
In this paper, we investigate the implication of land scarcity on agricultural intensification and the relevance of the Boserup hypothesis in the context of Egypt, where agriculture is dominated by irrigation and input application rates are much higher than SSA. We also examine [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Fertilizer Policies and Implications for African Agriculture
Book Chapter, Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2020 By Gashaw T. Abate, Kibrom A. Abay, and David Spielman Agricultural productivity growth has long been recognized as an important instrument to reduce poverty, generate nonfarm employment, and hence trigger structural transformation processes (see, for example, Timmer 1997; Fan, Hazell, Thorat 1999; Johnson 2000; and Mellor 2000). A […]
