Latest at LDRI
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GODAN Has Held Its First Ministerial Conference
GODAN was formed in 2013 out of a meeting that was inspired by the G8. You can read the backstory here. Although global south governments are a big part of their agriculture sectors, they weren’t prominent in GODAN at launch. With some like the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Mr Willy Bett, taking a keen […]
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Data Coordination Will Enrich CAADP’s Mutual Accountability Mechanisms
Data coordination has presented a challenge to Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) implementers for a long time. This is now more acute with the larger number of indicators in the new framework. CAADP aims to fight poverty and hunger through strengthening agricultural transformation which includes paying close attention to areas such as: investment in Agriculture, tripling Intra-African […]
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GODAN’s 3rd International Workshop on Creating Impact with Open Data
The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) is a worldwide network of institutions and governments supporting open data within the agriculture and nutrition space. LDRI has been part of GODAN since 2016 and is actively involved in the Capacity Development Working Group as well as the Government of Kenya’s GODAN National Steering Committee. We […]
Pan Africanist Voices
Because our agriculture has the lowest productivity in the world, the only way we are going to be able to catch up with productivity is by linking it to agro processing. Not living it alone, but adding value to the chain
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Recent Work
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Rethinking Intra-African Trade Through CAADP Implementation
The dairy industry is an important source of livelihood for the farmers that engage in it. It provides an avenue for income generation for smallholder farmers and contributes to the household asset base through finance and insurance. However, it is the role it could potentially play in intra-African trade and in alleviating hunger and malnutrition […]
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The 5i Framework: Assessing Resilience Building Initiatives in Africa
Resilience building has become a vital part of securing development gains in Africa over the last decade. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction defines resilience as “The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely […]
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