IFPRI established the west and central Africa office (WCAO) in 2010 to better meet local research and capacity needs for reducing poverty and ending malnutrition in the region.
Launch of the ReSAKSS Data Challenge
Established in 2006 under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) supports efforts to promote evidence- and outcome-based policy planning and implementation.
The missing piece in fighting Africa’s malnutrition problems
Africa has made great progress in the fight against malnutrition. Between 2000 and 2016 Senegal, Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Togo, Cameroon and Angola reduced undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality by up to 56%.
What can we learn from rising rice production in Senegal?
Staple crops in Africa offer economic promise for rural youth. Ndèye lives in a small town in northern Senegal, close to the border with Mauritania. She is the president of a union of women rice producers who are doing something different in their community:
The risk of populism to progress on food security
The rise of populism, seen in the UK’s divorce from the European Union and the USA’s withdrawal from climate and trade agreements, threatens to negatively affect Africa’s ability to improve food security.
Next Einstein Forum 2018 : Souligner les réalisations scientifiques et technologiques qui doivent soutenir l’agriculture
Directeur pour l’Afrique de l’Institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires (IFPRI), Dr Ousmane Badiane estime qu’il faut souligner les réalisations scientifiques et technologiques qui doivent soutenir l’agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires.
Politiques agricoles en Afrique : La recherche, le parent pauvre
En Afrique, la recherche agricole souffre de deux problèmes : le manque d’expertise et l’insuffisance des financements. C’est le diagnostic établi par des experts lors du troisième jour du Next Einstein Forum.
Des chercheurs de l’IFPRI se penchent sur la sécurité alimentaire et le commerce international
Dans le cadre des Rencontres Stratégies et Développement, l’institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires (IFPRI), l’institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA) et la Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (FASEG) ont procédé, le Mardi 27 Mars 2018, au lancement du livre: « Agriculture, Développement, et Système Commercial Mondial : 2000-2015 » ;
Report acknowledges progress in fight against hunger and malnutrition
Last month, in Senegal, members of the Malabo Montpellier Panel and Abdoulaye Ka, National Coordinator of Senegal’s malnutrition control unit the Cellule de Lutte la Malnutrition (CLM), launched ‘Nourished: How Africa Can Build a Future Free From Hunger and Malnutrition’.
World Water Day: Feeding millions from the ground up – the promise of groundwater-fed irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara
The number of food-insecure people in Africa South of the Sahara remains unacceptably high and is set to increase as a result of climate change and weak agricultural and economic growth. According to the 2018 Global Food Policy Report, an additional 38 million people are projected to be at risk of hunger
Rencontres Stratégies et développement & Lancement du Livre : « Agriculture, Développement, et Système commercial mondial »
A VOS AGENDAS : Rencontres Stratégies et développement & Lancement du Livre : « Agriculture, Développement, et Système commercial mondial » Mardi, 27 Mars, 2018 de 14:30 à 18:00 IFPRI Dakar , Salle de Conference Mohan Inscription à 14h30, l’évènement sera clôturé par un cocktail