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Latest publications

Because of inadequate incentives and low technology inputs, nearly 80 percent of all the wheat produced in Ethiopia is consumed [...]
Rice farmers in Mali receive prices that are lower than international reference prices. MAFAP analysis suggests that the following measures [...]
Although the government supports cotton farmers by regulating prices, cotton producers in Mozambique receive prices that are lower than international [...]
Import tariffs and costly import procedures help explain why consumers in the United Republic of Tanzania pay relatively high prices [...]

News and events

Transfer Project hosts third annual research workshop

Lusaka, Zambia ( 23-25 April 2013 )

The workshop will feature evaluation results from over a half-dozen cash transfer programs from Sub-Saharan Africa. Topics include health and [...]

Food security futures conference

Dublin, Ireland ( 12 April 2013 )

The food security futures conference brought together senior researchers from the CGIAR and FAO, and representatives from the private sector, [...]

Workshops in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova: Agricultural policies to reduce food insecurity and poverty

( March 2013 )

The objective of the workshops is to advance the national debate on agricultural policy options that contribute effectively to the [...]

US Launch of SOFA 2012: Investing in agriculture for a better future

IFPRI, Washington DC ( 22 January 2013 )

US Launch of The State of Food and Agriculture 2012, hosted by The International Food Policy Research Institute, the UN [...]

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