USAID has held regional workshops to inform programming for the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa. The workshop for West Africa is planned for November. The workshop for Eastern Africa was held in Kampala, Uganda during October 15-19, 2012. On the third day of the workshop, Joseph Karugia made a presentation on ReSAKSS capacity building activities and establishment of country SAKSS Nodes. The last two days of the workshop, Oct. 18-19 were dedicated to policy discussions on three priority areas, with presentation from IFPRI/ReSAKSS team:

On August 24th, ReSAKSS-ECA presented the poster, "Price policy responses to high food prices: Which way forward?".  The poster presents past examples of food price policies in the eastern and southern Africa region, pros and cons of various price policy options, and recommendations on how to proceed in the future.  The poster was revealed during the National Agricultural Policy Research Dissemination and Stakeholder Engagement Forum held at the Sarova Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.  The theme of the forum was on ‘Achieving Food Security in the Era of High and Rising Food Prices’.

ReSAKSS Issue Brief number 12