Agricultural development programs often aim to empower women by enhancing their control over income via new work opportunities, but as an unintended negative consequence, these programs can sometimes increase women's already heavy workloads. This raises the question of whether women themselves consider the increased control over income to be worth the additional work. To answer this, we need to know how much they value control over income and how much they value efforts to free up their time.
Conference 2022: Advancing the transformation of Africa’s seed sector: Emerging insights and perspectives
From 17-19 October, over 170 seed sector professionals from African and global organizations gathered in Kigali, Rwanda for the ISSD Africa Synthesis Conference.
The conference enabled attendees to harvest, share discuss and debate innovations in policy and practice that contribute to seed sector transformation in Africa
Agricultural value chain prioritization: Findings from an economywide modeling exercise for Rwanda
This seminar examined results from a forward-looking application of Rwanda’s most up-to-date economywide model to identify the impact of value chain development across four dimensions: generating economic and sectoral growth; reducing national and rural poverty; generating jobs and employment (both on-farm and in the broader agri-food system); and improving diet quality.
Agricultural Insurance in Rwanda: Principles, Products, and Practices to Inform the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS)
Agriculture is fraught with risk. The type and severity of these risks varies by crop, market, agroecology, and institutional context. Rwanda’s fourth Strategic Plan for Agriculture Transformation (PSTA 4), which began in 2018 and continues to 2024, has prioritized a number of risk mitigation investments such as infrastructure development, technological innovation, and improved management of land, soils, and water.
The Rapid Rise in Food, Fuel, & Fertilizer Prices
Global Crisis Country Brief Series
The Rapid Rise in Food, Fuel, & Fertilizer Prices
IFPRI’s economywide model (RIAPA) estimate the effects
on economic stability, food security, & poverty in developing countries
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