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Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in devel...
The best-fit framework revisited
Extension and advisory services (EAS) are well recognized as a key factor in contributing to agricultural productivity and growth. However, rigorous e...
This brief summarizes the recent assessment of the implementation of the Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education Training for Women Program (A...
Over the past decade, the aquaculture sector in Ghana has experienced tremendous growth—driven mainly by large-scale cage farms—but it has been un...
Many development agencies design and implement interventions that aim to reach, benefit, and empower rural women across the value chain in activities ...
Various models and approaches are being implemented to provide technical assistance and support to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes and welfare ...
Over the past decade, Ghana’s tilapia farming has experienced tremendous growth in production; however, much of the growth has been driven by large-...
Global growth in aquaculture is underway – a “blue revolution” featuring rapid increases in demand for fish and a corresponding surge in aquacul...
We document the state of the extension system in Ethiopia and review the empirical evidence on the links between the key extension services provided, ...
The study assesses the effect of interactive radio programming on women’s empowerment and agricultural development, employing nationally representat...
This report describes the baseline data collected from 1,835 men and women respondents in 998 households in two irrigation sites in the central dry zo...
A survival analysis of contract farming participation in northern Ghana
Contract farming (CF) is attractive as a possible private-sector-led strategy for improving smallholder farmers’ welfare. Yet many CF schemes suffer...
The lead farmer (LF) approach has been implemented and heavily promoted nationwide in Malawi since 2009 to support government extension workers and ac...
In July 2016, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and partners launched a three-year evidence-based policy support project to ana...
Inclusive agricultural value chains (VCs) are potential drivers for poverty reduction, food security, and women’s empowerment. This report assesses ...
This paper develops a new framework to measure and track women’s empowerment in governance of countries’ agrifood systems. All too often, women’...
The focus in this paper is on two relatively large maize-based contract farming (CF) schemes with fixed input packages (Masara and Akate) and a number...
There are more than 120 organizations and programs in Malawi working on agriculture that include extension service provision among their main activiti...
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has for decades contributed significantly on key topics for effective service delivery. Build...
The Government of Malawi is in the process of developing its National Agricultural Extension Strategy. Two rounds of national household and community ...
Many rural producer groups face poor management practices, low productivity, and weak market linkages. An information and communication technology (IC...
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This is part of a series of descriptive reports and later in-depth analysis of the survey data. These series are aimed to provide an assessment of the...
This policy note provides evidence of the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on farming communities in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone using baseli...
On 27 April, the Myanmar Government published the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) which aims to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the macroeconomic...
Consumer demand for food safety is likely to be an important driver of public policies and industry-led efforts to reduce information asymmetry on foo...
This report provides a farm-level analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, 12–15 months in, using a nationally representative rural household...
The persistent and worsening effects of the COVID-19 crisis on rural household incomes are alarming. The onset of the second wave of infections and mi...