Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (ARENA) is 3-year, multi-country project in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, being implemented from 2014 through 2017. The objective of ARENA is to close…
A growing consensus in agriculture development is the idea that, in the coming decades, an overall increase in global food production is needed from existing agricultural land, without further degradation of natural resources and ecosystem services.…
Insights from Agent-Based Modeling in the Indus, Mekong and Niger basins The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) in conjunction with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and partners is promoting a new…
The Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project is a three-year pilot project from 2015-2018 being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture in Bangladesh. It is partially funded by USAID and the IFPRI-led CGIAR Research Program on…
African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium
The use of impact evaluations has rapidly increased in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade, with estimates reaching up to 250 completed or on-going impact studies in the region. Increased knowledge and awareness of African impact evaluation…
Alive & Thrive is a multi-year initiative that began in 2009 to combat global child undernutrition through interventions to support appropriate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. The initiative began with work in Viet Nam, Ethiopia, and…
What is the challenge? Public private partnerships (PPPSs) have the potential to bring much-needed financial, technical, and managerial resources to the irrigation sector in Africa south of the Sahara and are explicitly identified in the food security…
What is the challenge? Nearly 93% of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is currently rainfed and a large share of the rural population is subject to the vagaries of climate to grow crops and support livestock production. Yields for both crops…
This project seeks to strengthen the capacity of Bhutan’s Ministry of Agriculture to implement policy research on the country’s food, agriculture, and natural resource sectors. It will do this in two ways. First, it aims to contribute to practical…