
Discussions

Regreening Africa: Prioritising gender inclusion and agency in land restoration
The EU has scaled up its contribution to reach Sustainable Development Goal 5 in all internal and external policy areas. Gender equality and empowering women and girls are among the top priorities of DG INTPA. This is also...

WEBINAR: Funding Food System Transformation in Developing Countries: An example from Ethiopia
24 September 2021. Funding Food System Transformation in Developing Countries: An example from Ethiopia As countries develop national plans for food systems transformation, serious efforts are needed to mobilize the financial...

Ziway-Shalla Basin in Balance
Ziway Shalla is a closed water basin, located in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia, the country’s most important wetland area. It secures the livelihoods of local communities, a broad spectrum of wildlife and migratory birds. However...

Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia
Published on the Value chains knowledge portal on 25 August, this blog summarizes an IFPRI publication which assessed changes in farm and consumer prices of four major vegetables (tomatoes, onions, green peppers, cabbages) and the...

Launch of IFPRI's 2020 Global Food Policy Report: Building Inclusive Food Systems
7 April 2020. The rapid spread of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it are generating growing concerns that food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty may escalate, particularly among marginalized people in the developing world. To...

Agricultural value chains in development cooperation: analyses and recommendations
Against the background that the number of extremely poor people in many developing countries is not declining despite considerable efforts, the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen...

How to tackle the challenges for seed system changes? High level international multi-stakeholder workshop on Seed Systems Development
Key international and regional agrofood sector actors and investors were brought together for a workshop to explore seed systems challenges as well as opportunities for further collaboration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 17 May...

Putting the private sector at the centre of climate-smart agriculture
Published in May 2019 in the CTA Technical Brief Series, this brief Putting the private sector at the centre of climate-smart agriculture by Una May Gordon, Thomas Were and Oluyede Ajayi shows how the private sector contributes to...

#InformalTalk: Q&A of Webinar 3, Upcoming Webinars 4 & 5!
Here are the questions which were asked during the third #InformalTalks Webinar on “ How to extend social protection to informal workers?” which took place last Thursday: When you mention disability insurance and programme for...

Third #InformalTalks webinar special guest: Juergen Hohmann
As the third #InformalTalks Webinar "Informal Economy and Social Protection - How to extend social protection to informal workers?" on 4 October 2018 at 11am (CET) is approaching, the RNSF team is pleased to introduce one of its...