In 2 days! Join IFPRI CGIAR GROOTS Kenya CGIAR GENDER USAID IFDC East and Southern Africa GIZ #NEXUSGainsInitiative on May 8, 2 pm EAT zoom.us/webinar/regist… to discuss #Gender & #SoilHealth at the Africa Fertilizer & Soil Health Summit

Nairobi Declaration on Fertilizer and Soil Health: a commitment to >70% of smallholder farmers having access to quality extension and advisory services on fertilizer and soil health 👍👍👍au.int/sites/default/… #AFSH24 African Union

Highlights from yesterdays' discussion on strengthening Rwanda's #foodsystem indicators for better achievement of the PSTA5 targets . #CAADP

Here's another interesting paper on the NGO-effect in RCTs. The NGO-effect is one reason why findings from RCTs often do not scale. This one here is on an educational program in China. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Some economists say policy interventions should be based entirely on data & econometrics, ignoring common sense & intuition. But intuition is just millions of years of learning that survived the filter of evolution. To ignore intuition & common sense would be folly.

The Uma Lele Prize goes to Kajal Gulati! Their paper "Women's Work and Agricultural Productivity Gaps in India" with Travis Lybbert and Koustuv Saha as co-authors sheds light on gender issues in agriculture. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement! #ICAE2024 #ISAE

A new study in #JDevStudies shows how small farmers in 🇰🇪 , especially 👩🏾, struggle to get loans. The study finds that 🔗 loans with insurance helps both👨🏾& 👩🏾 access credit more easily. 👉🏾Dig deeper: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @annegesare Apurba Shee Patrick S. Ward

Elsevier is one of the largest, most hated and most influential academic publishing companies in the world. How it started & how it's going A thread🧵

🚨 Upcoming Webinar! Next week, join the #SeedEqualInitiative to explore Regulatory System Mapping (RSM)—a data-driven tool for analyzing seed regulatory systems 🗣️ With Katrin Kuhlmann & Adron Nalinya New Markets Lab 📅 Nov 20🕓 4-5 PM EAT 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This morning, I hosted officials from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CGIAR at Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock Development House to discuss collaborative efforts in creating an efficient regulatory framework for Vegetatively Propagating Seeds (VPS) in Kenya. Kenya's current seed

🆕 🗞️ Integrating Earth observation, biophysical, and survey data to evaluate the ecological impacts of a common land protection and restoration intervention in Rajasthan, India 🖋️ By Karl Hughes, Himani Sharma, Pratiti Priyadarshini, Tor Vågen, Leigh Winowiecki, and

Have you registered for the #GFPR2025 launch? 📆 May 28, 2025, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT 📍In-person and online. 🗨️ Johan Swinnen Ruth Hill Steven Were Omamo Agnes Quisumbing David Spielman Dr. Purnima Menon Alice Ruhweza Ramesh Chand 🇮🇳 Chris Barrett Ismahane Elouafi Joan Matji 🎫

How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds Last week on VoxDev w/ Caroline Miehe (NOVAFRICA), Leocardia Nabwire (One Acre Fund), Robert Sparrow (Wageningen U&R), David Spielman (IFPRI) & Bjorn Van Campenhout (IFPRI): voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

📢 On June 11, join us for a discussion of key findings from a recent special issue of Food Policy exploring the complex interactions between fertilizer use, soil health management, & economic shocks in various agricultural systems. 👉 bit.ly/SoilHealth- 🤝IFPRI

📚In this 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI', we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy 📰 which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use 🌱, soil health management 🌍, and economic shocks 📉 in various agricultural systems: on.cgiar.org/45Pnz7b

Fertilizer, soil health, and economic shocks: Policy lessons learned from recent events x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🔔#HappeningNow: "Fertilizer, soil health, and economic shocks: Policy lessons learned from recent events"🔔 📺Watch #ifpriLIVE: 🎫 bit.ly/SoilHealth- 🤝 bit.ly/SoilHealth-FB 💼 bit.ly/SoilHealth-LI Food Policy CGIAR Cornell Dyson World Bank Arizona State University IRRI 🌾

This 🆕 special issue of Food Policy brings together a collection of research articles examining how global crises have affected fertilizer markets, soil health, and agricultural productivity, particularly in low- and middle-income countries: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… 🧵 👇

📣 An #IFPRIpolicyseminar held on June 11, 2025 discussed the issue’s findings. 📺 View seminar recording: bit.ly/SoilHealth- 🔗 Read the press release: on.cgiar.org/3FALywr CGIAR CIMMYT @IRRI Kibrom Abay Jordan Chamberlin Pauline Chivenge David Spielman