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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 [...]

Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia

Aslihan Arslan, Nancy McCarthy, Leslie Lipper, Solomon Asfaw and Andrea Cattaneo
This paper analyses the determinants of farmer adoption of conservation farming practices using panel data from two rounds of the [...]

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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