Bjorn Van Campenhout

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Peer-reviewed publications from IFPRI researchers This week’s collection features a selection of articles that are part of the Agricultural Systems journal’s extensive Special Issue on “Designing, assessing and scaling approaches for integrated seed ...

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Our paper "Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment" is now in print in the Review of Economics and Statistics!

Main finding? Mobile money increased out-migration from rural areas and reduced agricultural investment.

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Peer-reviewed publications from IFPRI researchers This week’s collection features new research on the role of behavior change communication and nutrition supplements in preventing relapse from child wasting, sweet potato vine auctions in Rwanda, buye...

The latest edition of 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI' is out!

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Buyer-side gender discrimination in bargaining: Evidence from seed sales in Uganda Haggling over prices is a common feature of economic transactions in many societies. This study examines whether the gender of the seller influences b…

New Research on Gender and Price Negotiation!
A study from eastern Uganda explores how the gender of the seller affects bargaining outcomes in negotiations.
#GenderEquality #Bargaining #MarketDynamics #EconomicEmpowerment #Agribusiness #OpenAccess

read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Special Issue: Fertilizer and soil health policies in the context of global supply disruptions and economic crises In this Weekly Reads from IFPRI, we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use, soil health management, and economic shock...

📚In this 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI', we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy 📰 which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use 🌱, soil health management 🌍, and economic shocks 📉 in various agricultural systems: on.cgiar.org/45Pnz7b
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2025 Global Food Policy Report | Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World Also streaming on Please type your questions into the chat box with name, affiliation, and country. The event video, presenter slides, and podcast will be

📆 Mark your calendars:

📣 Please join us for the launch of @IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report!

⏲️ May 28, 2025, 9:00am – 12:30pm EDT

📍In-person and online.

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Why does adoption of improved seeds vary over time. How can correcting farmers' overly optimistic expectations improve long-term outcomes?

Read today's article to learn more:

How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gain...

🆕 How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds

Today on VoxDev w/ Caroline Miehe (NOVAFRICA), Leocardia Nabwire (One Acre Fund), Robert Sparrow (Wageningen University), David Spielman (@ifpri.org) & Bjorn Van Campenhout: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change Global cuts in development aid budgets could undermine climate finance commitments.

We wrote about a worrying trend: foreign aid is shrinking — and what’s left goes to emergency relief.
But without long-term climate investment, vulnerable communities stay stuck in crisis.

With @opkuusela.bsky.social:

theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...

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✨ Speaker Spotlight: #GFPR2025 ✨

Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, will be speaking at the launch of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report—a special edition marking IFPRI’s 50th anniversary.

🔗 bit.ly/GFPR2025

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China-professor Dorien Emmers: “Chinezen zien Europeanen niet als imperialisten, maar over Amerikanen denken ze anders” China-expert Dorien Emmers onderzoekt ontwikkelingskansen in China en ziet dat de inkomenskloof tussen mensen met en zonder diploma groeit. “Maar ook de 12 miljoen hoogopgeleiden die jaarlijks afstuderen, vinden niet makkelijk een job.”

Over ontwikkelingskansen voor Chinese kinderen en de economie in @standaard.be.

www.standaard.be/economie/chi...

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"the global economy is being held hostage by the whims of just one man, which is not usually how we like democracies or economies to work."

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

Stocks were in free fall again Friday as markets saw their worst week in years. The trade war heated up as China responded to President Trump with their own ... Trade war, tariffs and uncertainty drag markets to worst week in years

I've been getting a lotta (positive!) feedback on this interview with PBS News Hour. It was sort of weird: Each question was of the form: "okay, but what about this argument for the Trump tariffs"? I just tried to use it as a teaching opportunity.

New @ifpri.org working paper: Seed trial packs and cooking demos influence farmer adoption of improved maize in Uganda, but recycling seeds curbs long-term benefits. #Agriculture #MarketIntelligence @cgiar.org cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/c...

☕ 📑 This week's selection of peer-reviewed journal articles co-authored by IFPRI researchers is now online on LinkedIn!

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The full lethal impact of massive cuts to international food aid The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.

Donor cuts are endangering millions of children.

Aid slashed by the US, UK, France and others (incl Belgium) could halt treatment for 2.3M kids with severe malnutrition—leading to 369,000 preventable deaths/year. Proven life-saving programs are already shutting down.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

YouTube video by IFPRI Faces of IFPRI: Agnes Quisumbing

Our latest “Faces of IFPRI” video features Agnes Quisumbing @agnesq.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, who reflects on 30 years of policy research based on extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. 🌱 🌏

📽️ Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxR...

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🚀 Exciting news! Our latest research on "Miracle seeds: Biased expectations, complementary input use, and the dynamics of smallholder technology adoption" is now published in Economic Development and Cultural Change! 📄🌾

Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconDev

More than a meal: How school feeding programs are shaping the future A recent seminar analyzed emerging evidence and future directions for school meals in the 21st century.

Today is #InternationalSchoolMealsDay!

A recent IFPRI policy seminar offered a deep-dive discussion of the role of school meal programs in addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues:

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@justsand.bsky.social and I try to answer the question: how many lives saved by US foreign assistance each year. Best estimate: 3.3 million.

www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

@charlesjkenny.bsky.social & I were pleased to work with
@nickkristof.bsky.social and the NYT data viz team to show the stakes of what’s happening at USAID.

Gift link to their full investigation here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Understanding and measuring women's empowerment is crucial for effective development interventions. A recent comparative analysis evaluates various metrics to ensure accurate assessments and impactful programs.

🧪🔗#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

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A new tool based on IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)—developed by IFPRI and @ifad.org's Research and Impact Assessment Division (RIA)—provides a streamlined way to track and evaluate impacts on women’s empowerment in development projects.

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🌱 How can the on-the-ground impacts of genetic innovation in agriculture be assessed?

Learn more in this recent #blog by Emily Kilonzi, @berberkramer.bsky.social, and Carly Trachtman:
on.cgiar.org/40x53xw

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Does free sound too cheap? Here's new evidence on something that did not work to get young people enrolled in vocational training programs in Côte d’Ivoire: sending text messages highlighting that the program is free...
#AfricaGIL #EconSky

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the

Here is the White House’s own justification for its sudden evisceration of the entire foreign aid agency worldwide, in secret on a Saturday night.

It’s a quickie list of a few ragebait links to sites like Breitbart. They concern minuscule sums of money that could be addressed with trivial reforms.