What causes the ebb and flow of fashionable food movements? I discuss factors driving the upswings and plateaus in this post jaysonlusk.com/blog/2021/8/30…

Off to the East to meet my ultimate clients (agricultural value chain actors, especially smallholder producers) and have them validate my econometrics model results.

I heard there was a dress code

...Said No Academic Ever phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=2…

BBC Breaking News BBC News (World) META: Mark Evading True Accountability

Hello Luapula

Get vaccinated We are likely to get a fourth wave. Vaccines protect you and the people around You. #Zambia

4 fully funded PhD positions in agricultural economics at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: e.g. production economics, investments, efficiency/productivity analysis, (Bayesian) econometrics, spatial analysis, behavioural economics, data science, machine learning bit.ly/3rKuhFO (ref 05, 06, 10)

Will European leaders ever travel to Africa for the EU-AU summit?

A short interesting read: Why the future of the world's largest religion is female – and African theconversation.com/why-the-future… via The Conversation U.S.

⁦Honored to have chaired the session where my good friend and brother ⁦Hambulo Ngoma⁩ gave a keynote presentation at the ongoing @SADC, agrifood system policy dialogue meeting.

Am looking for any stroke patients / children with cerebral palsy who can't afford to pay for Physiotherapy/Rehabilitation services. I can be attending to them twice a week for free in lsk around chilulu garden 🙏

Listening to ⁦Thom Jayne⁩ at the ⁦@ReNAPRIconf⁩ 9th annual conference. How do we nudge the efficient use of fertilizer for improving agrifood systems in Africa? ⁦Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute⁩

With the Zambian delegation at the ⁦@ReNAPRIconf⁩ 9th annual conference ⁦Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute⁩ ⁦Ministry of Green Economy and Environment - Zambia⁩

PLEASE HELP US FIND THE PARENTS OF THIS GIRL. HER NAMES ARE JUSTINAH BWEMBYA AND HAS BEEN UNDER OUR CARE FOR A FEW DAYS NOW AFTER WE FOUND HER LOST AND CRYING WE REPORTED TO DIFFERENT POLICE STATIONS BUT UP TO NOW NO ONE HAS CLAIMED HER

Bumped into my bro Felix this morning both of us grabbing some breakfast after school runs. Brief but very insightful chat we had about sustainability of local policy research institutions and their key role in national development.

A typical safari can be a spine-jostling, motorized affair that gets you up close and personal with wildlife, with minimal risk. ‌A walking safari is‌ something else entirely, as a writer found traversing the bush by foot in two Zambian national parks. nyti.ms/3HLaRtG

Absolutely shocking interest rates in the micro finance sector in #Zambia The average cost of borrowing is 95% Direct Financial Services charges a hooping 386%. All BoZ can do is just publish instead of stopping this theft.

At the Sida funded Farmer Know Your Soil campaign implemented by Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute, great partnership with CIMMYT and IFDC ReNAPRI & others. A 1^6 thanks to USAID supported AID-Initiative. Sieg Snapp CIMMYT Hambulo Ngoma time for farmers to get the bang for their buck.