IFPRI West and Central Africa

West Africa has sustained a solid pace of growth for nearly two decades—a welcome change after years of stagnation and decline. The strategic question remains, however: How can the region build on this success to accelerate economic ...

It is widely agreed that reducing poverty in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) depends largely on stimulating growth in agriculture. To this end, heads of state in Africa rallied to form the pan-African Comprehensive African Agriculture ...

The long-term imbalances between supply and demand and international trade changes that triggered the recent crises in global food markets are also fueling a spike in overseas investments in agricultural land. Africa is a major destination of ...

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production but also on the policies that affect an entire food system, ...

Dans le cadre de sa politique de décentralisation, l’IFPRI a établi des bureaux régionaux et nationaux dans différentes parties du monde en développement dans le but d’améliorer son efficacité. En tant qu’institut de recherche agissant au niveau ...

The recent surge in oil prices has created concern about its impacts on poor people in South Africa. The strong economic performance recorded over the period 1995-05 has not contributed to a substantial reduction in poverty in this country, ...

Ismaël Fofana is a Postdoctoral research fellow in IFPRI. He joined the West and Central Africa office in Dakar (Senegal) in October 2010. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (France). He worked between 2001 ...

John Ulimwengu, a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, joined IFPRI in March 2007 as a post-doctoral fellow. Prior joining IFPRI, John worked as a consultant with the University of Missouri on a Workforce Innovations Regional ...

Julie Collins is a Senior Research Assistant in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa Office, based in Washington, DC. She earned her MS in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Previously she worked as a ...

The risk of food insecurity due to climate change in developing countries has encouraged development partners to seek new approaches to improve the resilience of subsistence agriculture to covariate shocks. Such innovative approaches include ...

African economies have sustained a solid pace of growth for nearly two decades. This unprecedented performance in the continent’s history is a welcome change from the previous decades of stagnation and decline. So, how can Africa continue to ...

May 15, 2013, Dakar, Senegal—West Africa has sustained a solid pace of growth for nearly two decades—a welcome change after years of stagnation and decline. The strategic question remains, however: How can the region build on this success to ...

Site web du bureau de L’IFPRI pour l’Afrique occidentale et centrale (Website of the IFPRI West and Central Africa office)

This study applies regression analysis as well as a non-parametric method to survey data from Burkina Faso to analyze the role of human capital in explaining technical efficiency in smallholder agricultural production. Exploiting the panel nature ...

Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender-responsive budgeting ...

We use the concept of the product space to analyze the key features of the transformation process in Africa with a focus on the agricultural sector. Between 1962 and 2008, we find that both specialization and diversification occur for the overall ...

The prevalence of malnutrition across a predominantly agrarian country like Uganda and its potential economic implications indicate the importance of understanding the link between agricultural productivity and nutrient consumption. Such an ...