In May 2021, Sri Lanka’s government imposed an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizer imports. This paper leverages this natural experiment to quantify the costs of a lack of access to fertilizer for agricultural...
The objective of the Agriculture Rural Growth and Land Management Project of Madagascar is to boost agricultural development through the following three areas: (i) Strengthen and expand existing agro-industrial...
Uzbekistan is a landlocked, Central Asian country that shares borders with Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. In 2004–2016, Uzbekistan’s economic growth was rapid and lifted...
Uzbekistan is a landlocked, Central Asian country that shares borders with Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. In 2004–2016, Uzbekistan’s economic growth was rapid and lifted...
Central Asia (CA) has for centuries occupied a position of strategic importance in trade between East and West. Most agri-food export from CA continues to go to Russia. Yet, the long-term demand for most...
This paper is the first to provide both theoretical and empirical evidence of farmland globalization whereby international investors directly acquire large tracts of agricultural land in other countries...
The development objective of the Support to Agro-Industrial Competitiveness Project for Mali is to encourage investment in commercial agriculture, and to increase the processing of agricultural products...
Despite the region’s vast potential for agriculture production and trade, the agriculture sector in Central African economic and monetary community (CEMAC) remains largely underdeveloped. This study supports...
The development objective of the Strengthening Agri-Food Value-Chains Program-for-Results Project for Morocco is to increase the volume of added-value products commercialized in selected agri-food value...
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In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important...