This blog post is cross posted from IFPRI Website BY BONIFACE AKUKU, CLEMENS BREISINGER, JOSEPH KARUGIA, JAWOO KOO, MICHAEL KEENAN, AND RICHARD NDEGWA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Policymakers are under tremendous pressure to address multiple challenges facing food systems amid widespread budgetary constraints. Having a good evidence base to inform policy and investment decisions is […]
How IFPRI, CGIAR and the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis Share Capacity
By Harriet Mawia, Yumna Kassim, Clemens Breisinger, Naureen Karachiwalla, Jonathan Mockshell, Ara Go. How can inflation be lowered, and more better-paying jobs be created? How can necessary public investments be funded and prioritized? By raising taxes and looking for external funding sources? Such questions are high on people’s and policy makers minds in Kenya and […]
Study examines the impact of COVID-19 on informal milk markets and household food security in Nairobi
This post is a cross-posted from ILRI A study published in the April 2023 issue of Current Developments in Nutrition has put forth new empirical evidence on the effect of COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in behaviour and government restrictions in Kenya on dairy supply chains and urban and peri-urban household food access. The study focused on milk sold […]
Innovative Approaches towards Agricultural Risk Management
By Berber Kramer and Gabriel Munene Laiboni Kenya’s agricultural sector is very important to its economy. However, as in other African countries south of the Sahara, it is increasingly vulnerable to vagaries of climate change, with climate-related risks affecting food production, food and income security, and having spillover effects to the wider economy. In the absence […]
Developing and implementing Picture-Based Advisories (PBA) for farmers in Kenya
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, BERBER KRAMER AND BENJAMIN KIVUVA IFPRI’s picture-based insurance (PBI) initiative, recognized as a CGIAR@50 Innovation and active since 2016, relies on participating farmers to upload smartphone pictures of their fields at intervals throughout the growing season. In the event of bad weather, pests, disease, or other problems that harm the crops, the photos are used to […]