Published on the IFPRI website on 31 March 2020, this blog by Danielle Resnick argues that as governments impose COVID-19 restrictions, informal food traders should be helped rather than persecuted. As COVID-19 begins its spread...
This regularly updated webpage of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development compiles ideas and resources on how donor and development agencies might adjust their private sector development (PSD) interventions to mitigate the...
Puiblished on Devex on 28 April, this opinion piece by Pamela Bella Nyamutoka Katooro, Regional Director of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), considers the economic challenges of COVID-19 on small and...
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...
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...
Published in February 2020, this briefing from the Gender and Development Network explores the effect of PPPs on gender equality and women’s rights – highlighting concerns over increasing costs to governments alongside threats to...
According to a press release published on 21 January 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is in the process of creating a new nonprofit, Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations, which seeks to accelerate the development...
This fifth chapter in the monograph Private sector’s role in agricultural transformation in Africa, published by IFPRI in September 2019, considers that custering, among other tools, offers the potential for improved coordination...
This third chapter in the monograph Private sector’s role in agricultural transformation in Africa, published by IFPRI in September 2019, is entitled 'The quiet revolution and emerging modern revolution in agri-food processing in...
This second chapter in the monograph Private sector’s role in agricultural transformation in Africa, published by IFPRI in September 2019, argues that traders, truckers, and retailers represent the circulatory system of food value...