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Blog post
What Museveni’s priorities must be if Uganda is to become middle income
Ugandans turned out to vote in the national elections last week, one of the main areas of interest for Ugandans in the run up to the 2016 elections was the state of the economy. The Electoral Commission has declared Yoweri Museveni the winner although to date, the opposition still disputes the results. Today’s blog looks at the challenges that lie ahead for Uganda’s...
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Publication - Project Memo
Dealing with fake agricultural inputs (Project Memo)
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Publication - Project Memo
Fully washed coffee exports in Rwanda: Market structure and policy implications (Project Memo)
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Publication - Project Memo
Financing the expansion and delivery of urban services (Project Memo)
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Blog post
Sub-standard quality of fertilisers and hybrid seeds makes adoption of modern inputs unprofitable
With the introduction of new technologies such as fertiliser and hybrid seeds, agricultural productivity has experienced an unprecedented rise in the past decades in almost all parts of the world. But not in Sub-Saharan Africa. This blog examines a recent IGC study examining the fertilisers available in Sub-Saharan Africa. It turns out that there is a huge variation in...
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Blog post
Closing the gender gap: The face of women in farming
Migration and remittance flows have radically altered the opportunities previously available to men and women to engage and participate in labour markets. Migrants workers, most commonly men searching for more lucrative jobs, send back remittances to households. In their absence, the emerging gaps in the labour markets are now increasingly being filled by...
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Blog post
Injecting science into the GMO debate
Much of the policy discourse around GMOs and regulation continues to be fed by ideological posturing, not science. In this blog, Farria Naeem, IGC Country Economist in Bangladesh, calls for a greater commitment to understanding the science and evidence on GMOs and the role they could play resolving Bangladesh’s food-security challenges. One main reason behind the...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Low quality, low returns, low adoption
The average quality of hybrid seeds and fertiliser is so poor that their adoption is not profitable at current prices, and this is a major reason why farmers in Uganda are not adopting modern agricultural inputs. Urea fertiliser, the most common type on the market, typically has 33% less nitrogen content compared to what is stated on the label. The average small...
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Event
Agricultural input quality forum: New research, private sector solutions & policy directions
Anyone interested in Ugandan agriculture knows that inputs sold across the country are often substandard. But conventional wisdom is intangible; policy needs a more concrete basis. New research presented at this event went beyond the anecdotes. It provided concrete evidence of the nature, scale, and implications of the quality problem in agricultural inputs. The first...
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Project
Coordinating farmers with cellphones: Technology innovation in livestock extension in Pakistan
Summary Livestock agriculture accounts for twelve percent of GDP in Pakistan, and is a key growth sector for the rural poor, as in much of South Asia. However, the market for livestock faces many of the same imperfections in developing countries as do land or crop markets. We implemented in partnership with the Punjab Livestock and Dairy Department a data-driven, state...