The third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was released last week. The report finds both good news and bad news for Africa’s trading system, as well as a few promising trends.
(Cross-post from IFPRI.org) As food systems in developing countries change rapidly, one important trend is the growing role of modern supermarkets in urban food retailing, with far-reaching implications for food marketing and human health. To investi...
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of financial inclusion of the rural youth in Uganda, with a specific focus on their engagement in the agricultural sector and the financial services that are available to them to pur...
This synthesis report is based on work done through the Joint European Union and International Labour Office of the Government of Rwanda (EU-ILO) project, aimed at strengthening the impact on employment of sectoral and trade policies. It synthesizes...
The Strengthening African Rural Smallholders (STARS) program is a five-year program (2016-2020) implemented by ICCO Cooperation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. Through a market systems development approach it focuses on improving access to...
This project will contribute to regional integration and effective implementation of the Agricultural and Rural Development Strategy of the East African Community and Food Security policies in member countries (with a focus on Burundi, Kenya, and...
Ethiopia currently sits as the world’s sixth largest coffee producer. The industry employs approximately 15 million people and accounts for 28 percent of the country’s total annual exports. Arabica coffee originated in Ethiopia, and consumers know th...
Improved irrigation and agricultural practices are touted as efficient ways to mitigate drought impacts. Paradoxically, that may not be the case in Jordan, where the use of state-of-the-art irrigation technology by commercial farmers in the East has...
In our recent webinar discussing the findings from the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) landscape analysis and case studies on women and youth inclusion in agricultural market systems, we were joined by RisiAlbania and ELAN RDC, tw...
This document was developed under the auspices of USAID’sNutrition Leadership Council (NLC). It summarizes the likely impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on nutrition and proposes guiding principles for priority actions during the response and recovery ph...
The publication of this youth-inspired edition coincides with the International Youth Day, 12 August 2020. The theme for this International Youth Day, “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young...
Food trade in East Africa during the month was characterized by trade deficits across major commodities in all the AGRA-focus countries. Most countries had trade deficits with a few countries recording exports. Import dependency was high in the whe...