This paper compares agricultural productivity growth, specifically, the impact of agricultural mechanisation on total factor productivity and cereal yields, across African countries using contemporaneous and sequential Malmquist index approaches.
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WP3 intends to address the question: How can cross-food value chain and market services function better to increase employment and boost income of smallholders and SMEs?
International extension networks provide vital services to stakeholders using a variety of organizational structures.
There are few wage-earning opportunities for the 223 million unemployed or underemployed youth in developing and emerging economies. Many of those young people are in rural areas where the local economy is largely agricultural.
Mechanization, digitalization, and rural youth engagement are central to African agricultural transformation.
This brief shows how innovative financing can help cut agricultural pollution in the People's Republic of China’s Xin'an River Basin by plugging funding gaps for nature-based solutions that also mitigate against climate change.
In developing countries, a substantial amount of perishable and often highly nutritious commodities, such as fruits and vegetables, are lost after harvest, mainly caused by the lack of key infrastructures, such as electricity and cold chain facili
Ethiopia’s rivers and streams (Figure 1) and its ground water potential of 2.6 billion m3 of groundwater potential (Awulachew et al., 2008) is estimated to have a potential to irrigate 5.3 million hectares of land.
There are few wage-earning opportunities for the 223 million unemployed or underemployed youth in developing and emerging economies. Many of those young people are in rural areas where the local economy is largely agricultural.
To understand the effects of COVID-19, the political crisis, and other shocks on Myanmar’s agricultural wage laborers (those workers relying on casual labor in agriculture), we rely on data from three rounds of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey
The adoption of laser land leveler technology and its impact on groundwater use by irrigated farmland in Punjab, Pakistan
This paper investigates the factors that influence the adoption of laser land levelers and their impact on groundwater usage in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. A farm household survey of 504 agriculture producers was conducted in 2019.
Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization service providers – July 2022 survey round
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania
We use plant level census data to identify spillovers from FDI in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector.
Differences in world market participation and access to value chain technologies have resulted in uneven experiences across countries. In this paper, we explore their impact on prices in the value chain, using the example of Ethiopia and Uganda.
2021 Annual Report
IFPRI’s 2021 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work around the world.
Agricultural credit constraints in smallholder farming in developing countries: Evidence from Nigeria
The agricultural sector in developing countries like Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern agricultural technologies. Poor access to credit is seen as a key barrier to adoption of these technologies.
Climate change is a truly global threat, but its impacts differ around the world. Regions and countries urgently need to identify and implement policy responses that reflect local needs and opportunities.