Food budget allocation efficiency: A missing component to help identify robust nutrition policies, with application to Rwanda
This paper presents two interrelated innovations to help identify diet-related nutrition policies.
This paper presents two interrelated innovations to help identify diet-related nutrition policies.
Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have risen rapidly in recent months, driven in large part by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia.
This paper provides a diagnostic of Rwanda’s food systems and the policy landscape that shapes it.
As Rwanda journeys towards a broad-based social and economic transformation, there are opportunities for the country’s food systems to become a key driver on that journey.
Understanding how countries improve children’s nutrition can inform policies and contribute to further improvements.
Diversification is a common livelihood strategy for rural households in developing countries, with diversification being either a choice or necessity depending on individual household contexts.
International fertilizer prices have increased rapidly since 2020 due to multiple factors.
As Rwanda is expected to return to its rapid growth trajectory following the COVID-19 pandemic, agriculture will continue to play a central role in the structural transformation of the entire economy.
Rwanda’s fourth Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture (PSTA 4), which extends from 2018 to 2024, is currently at its midpoint.
Although public spending under the fourth Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture 2018– 2021 (PSTA 4) is generally well structured and cost-effective, funding has been largely stagnant— and even declining, when measured in constant pr
While the key role that policy plays in sustainable development has long been recognized, rigorously documenting the influence of research on policy outcomes faces conceptual, empirical and even political challenges.
Rwanda has made remarkable progress in the past two decades, highlighted by rapid economic growth and sharp reductions in poverty.
Most farmers source sweetpotato vines from neighboring farmers or from cuttings taken from their own plots during the previous season.
This evaluative review is one of a series of end-of-program studies being carried out by the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) to document lessons from its achievements to inform future research and develo
Engaging youth in agribusiness is critical for livelihoods in Africa’s rural areas where millions of youth are unemployed and face many barriers to entry into agribusiness, such as limited education and lack of land (IFAD, 2019).
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic policy measures taken to prevent its spread led to a global recession in 2020 that was expected to cause significant increases in poverty and food insecurity in many countries.