Adetunji Fasoranti, Hyacinth Edeh, Kwaw Andam, Sena Amewu, and Seth Asante recently organized and participated in a webinar on “Seed Policy Design and Implementation: Lessons from West Africa” under the Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD-Africa) initiative. Speakers and panelists included private sector representatives, researchers, and policymakers working in the seed systems in Ghana and Nigeria. […]
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence Policy Analysis Training Material
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI) is an innovation lab supported by USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS). It is a collaborative effort among consortium partners that seeks to enhance the ability of local policy research organizations to conduct high-quality food security policy research and […]
Developing future leaders in food policy in collaboration with Purdue University’s Borlaug Summer Institute
Written by Suresh Chandra Babu and Namita Paul Developing future leaders for agriculture research and development is key for capacity strengthening activity for reducing hunger, malnutrition, poverty, gender inequality, and practicing climate-smart agriculture. Translating theoretical knowledge learned through academic courses into practical problem-solving skills is a part of capacity strengthening strategies to meet the policy […]
Building Capacity for Better Informed Biotech Policies
Senior Researchers from Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD) provided technical training to economists and graduate students from Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania. This training was attended by nine participants who will apply the skills learnt during this training to collect data for Rapid Economic and Environmental Assessment (REEAP) component of Programs for Biosafety Systems […]