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Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on vegetable value chains in Ethiopia
This post originally appeared on IFPRI.org blog .
By: Seneshaw Tamru, Kalle Hirvonen, and Bart Minten
Building Capacity for Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation
By: Seth Kwizera, Claude Bizimana, and David J. Spielman
Rwanda’s Fourth Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation (PSTA IV) presents an ambitious plan to dramatically change the country’s agricultural sector and rural economy. Released in 2018, the plan forms a critical component of Vision 2050, which envisions Rwanda’s transformation into an upper middle income country by 2035 and a high income country by 2050.
Agricultural extension: Evidence from Malawi
This post originally appeared on IFPRI.org.
Food Insecurity in East Africa
East Africa facing acute food insecurity as drought continues, alerts FEWS and FAO
Value chain distortions in Tanzania
Since the 1990s, the Tanzanian government has striven to transform the country into a semi-industrialized economy supported by productive commercial agriculture. To accomplish this goal, policymakers pursued a policy of trade liberalization and reduced government intervention, including the agricultural sector. As a result, Tanzania has experienced a moderately high agricultural sector growth rate of 4.1 percent per year over the last two decades; this rate is comparable with neighboring countries including Kenya (4 percent growth per year) and Uganda (3.2 percent).