In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other experts, tell the story of Ethiopia’s political, economic, and agricultural transformation.

The redesigned Portal features a new homepage layout that puts the latest global commodity price data right at users’ fingertips. The new Price Watch feature provides an instant overview of the volatility status of five major commodity prices from the Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System, as well as monthly and weekly global commodity prices and daily futures prices. The feature also links to the major international early warning systems, FEWS NET and FAO GIEWS, providing fast access to food security alerts and emergency information. From the homepage, users can also directly access the Food Security Media Analysis System and the full collection of the Portal’s datasets from the Data API

IFPRI’s 2012 Global Food Policy Report reviews food policy developments and trends with chapter-by-chapter discussions of major food policy developments, high-quality research, and perspectives of farmers from around the world.

Dr. Godfrey Bahiigwa has been appointed Office Head for IFPRI’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Worldwide Extension Study gives pragmatic statistics on the human and financial resources of agricultural extension and advisory systems worldwide.

As an output from the conference, Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Enhancing Food Security in Africa: New Challenges and Opportunities, which was organized by IFPRI with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa  and the African Union Commission and took place in Addis Ababa on November 1-3, a Development Brief has been published by UNDP-Ethiopia. The Brief makes [...]

On June 6, IFPRI and the e-Extension Centre of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, launched the Advancing Agricultural Practice portal which aims to improve agricultural productivity and farm income for smallholder farmers across India through improvements in agricultural practice. Video from the launch event Dr.Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, IFPRI, Addis Ababa [...]

IFPRI (ESARO) in conjunction with Wageningen University and Research Center is currently conducting evaluation of organizational capacity of Dutch-supported organizations in Ethiopia. One of such organizations is the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF).

In the past decade, many information and communication technology (ICT) projects in Indian agriculture have emerged, either substituting or supporting extension services by providing farmers with access to agricultural information.

A worldwide extension assessment mail-out questionnaire was administered to 37 agricultural extension service providers to collect quantitative data on primary organizational goals, functions, and resources, and the linkages of different extension organizations within an agricultural innovation systems framework.