Even before the COVID-19 pandemic battered economies across the world, Yemen had already experienced a half decade of civil war, resulting in a loss of approximately 45 percent of its real GDP by the end of 2019, according to the Yemeni Ministry o
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This policy note summarizes an evaluation of public investment options for Egypt’s agri-food system conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of the Governm
Unit root tests: Common pitfalls and best practices
Since the seminal paper by Granger and Newbold (1974) on spurious regressions, applied econometricians have become aware of the consequences of unit roots in empirical analysis with time series data.
Twenty-five years of living under contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world
The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy.
Linkages between GRACE water storage, hydrologic extremes, and climate teleconnections in major African aquifers
Water resources management is a critical issue in Africa where many regions are subjected to sequential droughts and floods.
The 2019 SAM for Egypt builds on the previous 2014/15 SAM that was built and published by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) with the support of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
This new regional SAM for Yemen includes 57 productive sectors – including 20 agricultural, 25 industrial, and 12 services activities – in four subnational regions: Highlands, Tihama, Aden, and Hadramaut.
The Regional 2014/15 SAM for Egypt includes 62 sectors and 66 products.
The new 2015 SAM for Jordan includes 56 sectors and 62 products.
The Tunisian regionalized SAM is built using the national accounts statistics, the Supply and Use Tables for 2015 that were produced by National Institute of Statistics (NIS).
The Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) aims to support the development and scaling of the CGIAR’s most strategic and impactful climate change mitigation strategies across Africa.
On the optimality of common external tariffs in Africa: Evidence from the EAC customs union
We study the determination of a common external tariff for African customs unions, using the case of the EAC.
The Egyptian government has prioritized the idea of cluster-based development-that is, the geographic concentration of specialized firms, such as in this case, those producing similar or related products.
A study of Tunisia’s leather and date sectors
Based on field visits, structured interviews, and reviews of the literature and secondary data, we examine major challenges facing the leather and date clusters in Tunisia. The challenges vary greatly between the clusters.
One of the most pressing challenges facing food systems in Africa is ensuring availability of a healthy and sustainable diet to 2.4 billion people by 2050.
Helen Keller International (HKI) has been implementing homestead food production (HFP) programs in Asia and Africa for nearly three decades.
Conformément à l’Agenda 2063, la ZLECAf représente une étape majeure dans l’achèvement réel de l'intégration économique de l’Afrique.