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Erick Boy

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Erick Boy

Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI) brings together partners from Africa, India and Germany to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food and nutrition security in Africa and India as part of the One World – No Hunger initiative (SEWOH) supported by the German government.

PARI research seeks to develop and apply approaches to identify the most cost-effective innovations for specific locations, target audiences, commodities and value chain stages across Africa that have the highest impact in relation to the PARI / SEWOH goals. Emphasis is placed on local innovative capacities, including innovations that come out of the formal research system as well as farmer innovations. Research also seeks to understand the context in which innovations are developed and disseminated to identify appropriate enabling conditions and guide investments and reform efforts towards strengthening these conditions.

PARI’s research focuses on five main themes

PARI’s research focuses on five main themes:

  1. Targeting investments in innovations and framework conditions.
  2. Mechanization and skill development for productivity growth, employment, and value addition.
  3. Digitalization in agriculture, food and nutrition.
  4. Enhancing opportunities for the youth in the rural economy.
  5. Improving the policy context and contributing to evidence-based policy.

Project duration: 2014 – ongoing

Contact

John M. Ulimwengu

Funders

German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Project partners

Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)

African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP)

Publications

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Transforming agricultural support for a sustainable future: A Latin America and Caribbean view

2024Laborde Debucquet, David; Olivetti, Elsa B.; Piñeiro, Valeria
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Transforming agricultural support for a sustainable future: A Latin America and Caribbean view

Addressing the complex challenges facing agricultural and food systems requires a detailed and integrated approach that ensures food security, enhances nutrition, protects environmental sustainability, and supports livelihoods. Governments are crucial in guiding this transformation through a range of policy tools, including regulatory measures, market-based mechanisms, price adjustments that reflect true production costs, and the reassessment of agricultural subsidies. Achieving comprehensive solutions to these challenges across the domains of food security, nutrition, and sustainable development hinges on reforming domestic agricultural support.

Year published

2024

Authors

Laborde Debucquet, David; Olivetti, Elsa B.; Piñeiro, Valeria

Citation

Laborde Debucquet, David; Olivetti, Elsa B.; and Piñeiro, Valeria. 2024. Transforming agricultural support for a sustainable future: A Latin America and Caribbean view. In Navigating the trade landscape: A Latin American perspective building on the WTO 13th ministerial conference, eds. Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos, and Martin Piñeiro. Chapter 6, Pp. 60-81. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151915

Keywords

Latin America and the Caribbean; Agriculture; Sustainable Development; Food Systems; Government; Nutrition

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-SA-3.0-IGO

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Book Chapter

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Institutional challenges to the implementation of nationally determined contributions in Latin America and Caribbean countries: Institutional architecture requirements, issues arising from the examination of NDC updates and lessons learned from capacity development interventions

2024Echebarria, Koldo
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Institutional challenges to the implementation of nationally determined contributions in Latin America and Caribbean countries: Institutional architecture requirements, issues arising from the examination of NDC updates and lessons learned from capacity development interventions

The nations that signed the Paris Agreement periodically submit Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with climate mitigation and adaptation goals. Complementarily, countries should also formulate and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAP) and periodically update them. This means that every country is required by law to outline a course of action in response to global warming and submit a pledge with specific objectives it is committed to achieving. These pledges are then reviewed and renewed every five years. Every round of pledges is meant to intensify the level of commitment and is negotiable, meaning that other parties can offer concessions or support in return for a more robust pledge. The pledge and review method were introduced first in 1991; however, in 1997, the international community chose to adopt legally binding emission reduction targets in the Kyoto Protocol. The pledge and review methods were reintroduced in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, following its limited success and the inability to reach an agreement on new targets. The NDC wording took the place of the pledge-and-review expression in the negotiations that resulted in the Paris Agreement. The fact that NDCs rely on voluntary commitments from signatory nations—many of whom lack the financial, technological, or institutional means to effectively combat climate change—has drawn criticism. Setting top-down targets, however, results in a distributional problem among nations that has proven unsolvable. Furthermore, targets are by no means a good solution in the absence of efficient review and compliance procedures. Since pledges—both in terms of the degree of commitment and the methods used—are subject to review and are not legally binding, NDCs offer a more practical strategy for international collaboration on mitigating climate change.1 The “naming and shaming” process—a form of peer and reputational pressure—is the foundation of the NDC method. Climate change politics have gradually changed because of the rise of bottom-up society initiatives and transnational networks of non-govern-mental actors, placing increased pressure on national governments and international organizations.

Year published

2024

Authors

Echebarria, Koldo

Citation

Echebarria, Koldo. 2024. Institutional challenges to the implementation of nationally determined contributions in Latin America and Caribbean countries: Institutional architecture requirements, issues arising from the examination of NDC updates and lessons learned from capacity development interventions. LAC Working Paper 32. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141936

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Latin America and the Caribbean; Capacity Development; Climate Change Mitigation; Global Warming; Sustainable Development Goals

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English

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Open Access

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The continuous rise – during economic growth, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and conflict – in the adoption of labor-saving agricultural technologies in Myanmar: Evidence and implications

2023Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity
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The continuous rise – during economic growth, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and conflict – in the adoption of labor-saving agricultural technologies in Myanmar: Evidence and implications

After decades of isolationism and economic stagnation, Myanmar opened its economy in the beginning of the 2010s, leading to rapid economic growth (Myanmar’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was almost 50 percent larger in 2020 than in 2011). But the COVID-19 health crisis that started in 2020 and a military coup in the beginning of 2021 – and the subsequent increase in conflicts, forced displacements, and migration – dramatically reversed that outlook, with Myanmar’s GDP in 2022 estimated to be 13 percent smaller than three years earlier. The agricultural sector also changed accordingly during this period.

Year published

2023

Authors

Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

Citation

Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA). 2023. The continuous rise – during economic growth, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and conflict – in the adoption of labor-saving agricultural technologies in Myanmar: Evidence and implications. Myanmar SSP Working Paper 43. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136902.

Country/Region

Myanmar

Keywords

South-eastern Asia; Asia; Military Operations; Agricultural Sector; Economic Development; Coronavirus; Covid-19; Coronavirinae; Migration; Gross National Product; Conflicts; Coronavirus Disease; Economic Depression

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136902 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Record type

Working Paper

Funders

German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Team members

John M. Ulimwengu

John M. Ulimwengu

Senior Research Fellow, Africa,
Development Strategies and Governance

John M. Ulimwengu

John M. Ulimwengu

Senior Research Fellow, Africa,
Development Strategies and Governance

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