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The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange: A Coffee Success Story?
As the only functioning commodity exchange in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is viewed as wildly successful in modernizing the Ethiopian economy, linking smallholder farmers to markets, and enhancing the country’s food security.
The Challenge of Increasing Agricultural Productivity in Africa South of the Sahara
The following post by IFPRI senior researcher Alejandro Nin Pratt was originally published on ASTI News and Notes .
Changing Climate, Changing World: How African Agriculture Will Respond
Conversations about climate change often focus on future effects, but according to the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, changes to the global climate have already had a significant impact on food production. Global agricultural productivity has declined over the past 30 years by 1-5 percent per decade, and this deterioration is expected to continue, even if we only experience low levels of warming (+2 ºC).