The Director of IFPRI for Africa –Dr Ousmane Badiane, accompanied by Dr Greenwell Matchaya (ReSAKSS-SA Coordinator) had consultation meetings with the Minister of Agriculture for Angola Agriculture (Honourable Antonio Francisco de Assis) and Departmental Heads on the 16th of August 2019.
On May 30, 2019, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement entered into force. To trigger its implementation, the agreement needed a minimum of 22 country ratifications. The AfCFTA aims to gradually eliminate tariff and non-tariff barriers, accelerate regional and continental integration, improve customs and trade facilitation, develop regional and continental value chains, foster investment and industrialization, and ultimately, boost intra-African trade.
Samuel Benin is Deputy Division Director of IFPRI's Africa Regional Office. Ernesto Tiburcio is a Research Analyst with IFPRI's Development Strategy and Government Division.
In Ghana and other countries, controversy over what figures to count as GAE as a share of GTE toward the CAADP 10 percent target continues to impede the tracking of this indicator. Such discrepancies may side-track policy actions and efforts needed to sustainably raise productivity and growth in the sector. Two recent agPER studies conducted in Ghana show high estimates of performance in this indicator at 6.7–21.2 percent in 2001– 2011 and 5.8–7.5 percent in 2012–2015.
This note presented revised estimates for Ghana in accordance with the official AU guidance note for assessing GAE against the CAADP 10 percent target. It also proposed a revised formula for obtaining parallel estimates when expenditures of Cocobod and other market-based PBCs are included in the calculations, which was achieved by adding expenditures of all market-based PBCs to GTE in the denominator to make it comparable to adding expenditures of Cocobod to GAE in the numerator.
Africa has the world’s largest proportion of poor and hungry people, but the lowest rate of coverage by social protection programs. Demand for social protection is growing in Africa, reflecting faster economic growth, rapid urbanization, and more open and pluralistic societies. In the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African leaders called for integrating social protection with measures to increase agricultural productivity to help achieve the goal of ending hunger by 2025.
Participants of the Training Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation for Agriculture and Rural Development, Nairobi, Kenya February 25th –March 2nd, 2019
Over 30 African Union member countries have begun the next-generation National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP) process, yet keeping tabs on where each country stands in the multi-year process is a challenge. Until now.
As part of ongoing outreach events, IFPRI connected with over 200 high school and college students during the month of May, inviting them to participate in the ReSAKSS Data Challenge. ReSAKSS’ outreach to youth and the next generation of African leaders in agricultural research, technical innovation and the arts promises to stir up exciting new participation in the second edition of the ReSAKSS Data Challenge.
