Effects of Disasters and Shocks on Africa's Food Systems: a case of the Russian-Ukrainian War

28 June 2022. Effects of Disasters and Shocks on Africa’s Food Systems: A Case of the Russo-Ukrainian War. 

• By ReNAPRI, the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI)
• ReNAPRI is a consortium partner of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Policy Research, Capacity, and Impact (PRCI)
• The ReNAPRI Webinar discussed the effects of disasters and shocks on Africa’s food systems

Speakers:

• Josef Schmidhuber from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• David LaBorde from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Andrew Agyei-Holmes, a research fellow at the Institute for Statistical, Social, and Economic Research - Ghana (ISSER), 
• William Chadza, the executive director at MwAPATA in Malawi
• Iredele Ogunbayo, a researcher at the Innovation Lab for Policy Leadership in Agriculture and Food Security (PiLAF) in Nigeria. 
• Zena Mpenda, deputy dean of the Department of Agricultural Food and Resource and Economics at Sokoine University of Agriculture, who recently was part of a PRCI training team for a training on gender
• Thom Jayne, University Foundation Professor Emeritus
• Moderators: Nalishebo Meebelo, the executive director of ReNAPRI, and Antony Chapoto, the ReNAPRI Network Technical Chair and Research Director at (IAPRI) in Zambia

Upcoming events:

1-3 November 2022. Windhoek, Namibia. 9th ReNAPRI stakeholders annual conference