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Consumer Demand & Processed Food in Nigeria
This piece originally appeared on the A4NH blog.
Driving Ag Mechanization
This piece originally appeared on the IFPRI.org blog .
By Xinshen Diao, Jed Silver, and Hiroyuki Takeshima
Ethiopia’s Farmers and Urban Growth
Urbanization rates have exploded across Africa over the past 20 years. According to the African Development Bank, between 1982 and 2012, African cities grew at a rate of 3.5 percent per year, and experts only forecast this trend to continue. The World Bank expects the share of Africans living in urban areas to reach 50 percent by 2030.
Helping Food Reach Cities: How Urbanization Is Changing Africa's Food System
The latest African Economic Outlook , published by the OECD, finds that despite a weakened global economy, lower commodity prices, and some serious weather shocks, Africa saw positive economic growth in 2015.
Harnessing value chains to improve food systems
This was first published as an IFPRI blog .
The recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prioritize improved nutrition and environmental sustainability. Chapter 6 of the 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights the need to reach this goal by adapting food systems to support nutritious and sustainably-produced diets throughout the world.