Agricultural extension is crucial for promoting equality of opportunity among smallholders. Ethiopia has one of Africa’s largest extension systems: 1) 17.5 million smallholder farmers 2) 1 extension agent per 400-500 farmers.
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Rural transformation and poverty reduction in Ethiopia require increased agricultural productivity. Limited availability of quality seed to smallholders is a roadblock on the way to productivity growth.
IFPRI's IMPACT model allows policy makers, analysts, and civil society to explore future scenarios for food security—including the impact of climate change on agricultural production and hunger—through an integrated system of linked economic, clim
The Global Hunger Index tracks progress in reducing hunger at the global and country levels.
Total factor productivity (TFP) provides a measure of the efficiency of agricultural production, allowing for comparisons across time and across countries.
Food policy indicators: Tracking change: Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)
ASTI provides open-access data and analysis on agricultural research investment and capacity in low- and middle-income countries as well as benchmarking tools that allow for tracking the performance of national agricultural R&D systems.
Food policy indicators: Tracking change: Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators (FPRCI)
The FPRCI database provides measures of quality and quantity of national capacity for food policy research in 33 developing countries.
SPEED tracks public expenditures in agriculture and other sectors by national governments across 109 developing countries and 35 developed countries.
Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition: Seven secrets for success in nutrition
Where in the World are GM crops planted?
The infographic shows the visualization of national areas and type of GM crops planted in 2013 using Clive James' ISAAA Brief 46 Global Status of Commercia
These crops have been conventionally bred to be rich in essential vitamins and minerals that are needed for good health.
Infographic on global investment in agricultural R&D, including global public spending, global private spending, why research investment matters.
Rooting out hunger
From 2007 to 2009, HarvestPlus and its partners disseminated orange sweet potato (OSP) to more than 24,000 households in Mozambique and Uganda to see if we could reduce vitamin A deficiency—through food.