This is why I can’t go to the triennial ICAE in New Delhi this year…

Amidst the worst and most unexpected snowstorm of the year, ISID_McGill pulled off a phenomenal panel discussion on farmers in low-income countries, global value chains, and climate and war shocks. Now available on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=0d0EoI…

NEXT! How does a digital credit insurance bundle impact smallholders’ credit and insurance uptake, well-being, gender parity, and agricultural outcomes? Berber Kramer discusses this in relation to an intervention conducted in India.

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🐟🌽🐔Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in #Ghana , #Kenya , and #Tanzania .

📝By Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Alessandra Galiè, Tatiana Gumucio, Humphrey Jumba, Berber Kramer, and Catherine Ragasa Catherine Ragasa.

🖱️doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.…
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Applications are now open for NovaSBE PhD Summer School taught by David McKenzie

Students taking the course last time said they learned a lot about how to run experiments, and also had a good time.

Join us!

Nothing beats a good competition! Zindi hosted 2 data science challenges to detect drought and other types of damage from crop images📷, for ACRE Africa to scale picture-based insurance. Our winning solutions will be presented March 14th! 👇lu.ma/26qg4mku IFPRI

Berber Kramer

New paper on women's seed entrepreneurship in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. 👇Time flexibility + profitability are important factors for women to become seed entrepreneurs. Family & external support are key to women's success in seed businesses. doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.… ISSD Africa

Inspiring field visit with Dvara E-Registry learning from sharecroppers what impact Dvara’s remote sensing-based credit-insurance bundle had. We find ➕ impacts on ag income, women’s empowerment & mental health - those numbers came to life today.

Paper out 🔜

Patrick S. Ward

👋🏾 Recently I've gotten a bunch of requests - so I put it together for easy sharing:

'Opportunities for African and global south grad students & scholars'

Mentorship, grad school app guidance, grants etc. ➡️ Please use, download & share around!

docs.google.com/document/d/1E7…

New country-level impact assessment opportunity CGIAR SPIA! If submitting a proposal for Kenya, get in touch for a chat; IFPRI's Kenya office will be leading an effort in 2024 to coordinate outcome & impact evaluation across CGIAR initiatives in Kenya :)
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To understand the production and consumer traits that lead farmers to plant and consume the varieties they do, we partnered with IFPRI and KALRO to conduct a Market Intelligence research in Kenya through a cooking demonstration.

Read more: kenya.ifpri.info/2023/12/21/let…

Fastest in Africa, 2nd women (3rd age adjusted), and highest elevation ECON5k... yay! My #Econ5K run in windy 🇳🇱 would've given me fastest woman, but I decided to defend my African title. 🙏 Dan Ina Sandra for organizing this and for a beautiful mug!
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If you’re at the #AEA #ASSA2024 annual meeting in San Antonio, TX, stop by to check out our session on gender and financial inclusion, Saturday from 8-10am. Also DM me if you’re around and want to meet up!

Contextualizing women's and men's trait preferences and choice options in the uptake of breeding products: a framework

✍️Martina Cavicchioli, Steven Cole, Béla Teeken, Jacqueline Ashby, Vivian Polar, Berber Kramer, Mastewal Yami, Tahirou Abdoulaye.
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My 2nd ECON5k attempt! #Econ5K . Now I need to decide which one to submit: Just shy of 22 minutes at 1800m elevation in 🇰🇪 or a time of 20:40 at sea level in 🇳🇱… which one would give me the highest chances of winning an award 🤔

IFPRI is hiring an Associate Research Fellow/Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. The position is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Learn more here 👉 ow.ly/zNGa50QkPEP

All current IFPRI #vacancies 🔎 ow.ly/HnOO50QkPEQ

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