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One of the worst droughts in living memory is sweeping across southern Africa, leaving close to 70 million people without enough food and water, Shingai Nyoka reports from Zimbabwe. Link below. ⤵️

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

Review paper out today in ⁦Science Magazine⁩: a big group of us explain how climate change aggravates agriculture’s environmental impacts and what researchers and public/private leaders can/must do in response. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We’d like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel.

Just because a term appears many times in your paper doesn't mean you need to invent an initialism or acronym for it. Really. You can just write out the words every time. That's kinder to your reader in almost every case.

A Reminder of this Online event happening today. Hope many of you can join us in this celebration and hear about the future of food security policy research from some eminent researchers and practitioners. Food, Agric. & Nat. Res. Policy Analysis Network World Bank AgriFood Food Security Portal (FSP) ANAPRI Int. Association of Agricultural Economists

We had a great opening session of FSG”s 50th Anniversary celebration event today. Thanks to Matin Qaim, Derek Byerlee and Jeffrey Bloem for sharing their wisdom on the what & how of the future of food security research for policy impact. Lots of food 4 thought for the next 50 years.

On the @ifpri blog: "How much does take-up timing for agricultural inputs depend on price? Evidence from an experiment in Nigeria" ifpri.org/blog/how-much-…

🆕blog by Mulubrhan Amare, Kate Ambler, Temilolu Bamiwuye, Jeffrey Bloem, Rewa Misra, & Julia Wagner on preliminary results from a trial in Nigeria investigating how providing discount vouchers affects take-up rates and the timing of these purchases: on.cgiar.org/3Zq7K3M CGIAR

The second in a two-part series of posts on the @ifpri blog: "Does conflict-driven internal displacement influence demand for agricultural inputs? Evidence from Nigeria" ifpri.org/blog/does-conf…

Does #conflict-driven internal #displacement influence demand for agricultural inputs? Read our new blog exploring evidence from #Nigeria. CGIAR #FCMinitiative Norad #fragility #migration Jeffrey Bloem Mulubrhan Amare Kate Ambler Tems Rewa Misra Katrina Kosec IFPRI_Africa

On the IFPRI blog JoeGlauber--IFPRI | @jwglauber.bsky.social discusses what is at stake for developing countries if the port-worker strikes are prolonged ifpri.org/blog/the-likel…

Harris has proposed giving $6,000 (via refundable tax credit) to families in the 1st year of a baby's life. Flint, Michigan has been doing exactly that for the past year. The results are incredible: -Fewer babies born with low birthweight -No families evicted in baby 1st year

Please share ... CIDER development economics pre-doctoral fellows program now accepting applications for July 2025 start date. Come work with me, Jenny Aker, Heather Schofield,Johannes Haushofer, Joanna Upton, Martina Occelli, John Hoddinott, and perhaps more! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

🆕 IFPRI Issue Brief: #Gender and Age Employment Gaps within Agrifood #ValueChains in #Bangladesh and #Uganda 📝 By Kate Ambler, Jeffrey Bloem, and Julia Wagner. 🔗 Read the full brief here: hdl.handle.net/10568/162977 CGIAR IFPRI-Bangladesh IFPRI_Africa

🏫When the school year competes with farm work, it becomes a barrier to educating rural children. 🧑‍🌾 But changing the school calendar can help! A summary of research thus far, including my new collaboration in #Madagascar, in the blog post below 👇

*How* did so much of the world's population exit extreme poverty? Vinny Armentano 📈 , Tom Vogl and I wanted to know; here is what we've found.. econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pape…

🆕 #Blog: The gendered response to farmer-herder violent conflict in Nigeria 🖊️ By Jeffrey Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis, and Harrison Mitchell. 🖱️ Read more here: on.cgiar.org/4jvxSk4 CGIAR IFPRI_Africa