👋🏾 Recently I've gotten a bunch of requests - so I put it together for easy sharing: "Opportunities for African and global south grad students & scholars" Mentorship, grad school app guidance, grants etc. ➡️ Please use, download & share around! docs.google.com/document/d/1E7…

New country-level impact assessment opportunity CGIAR SPIA! If submitting a proposal for Kenya, get in touch for a chat; IFPRI's Kenya office will be leading an effort in 2024 to coordinate outcome & impact evaluation across CGIAR initiatives in Kenya :) iaes.cgiar.org/spia/call-expr…

Inspiring field visit with Dvara E-Registry learning from sharecroppers what impact Dvara’s remote sensing-based credit-insurance bundle had. We find ➕ impacts on ag income, women’s empowerment & mental health - those numbers came to life today. Paper out 🔜 Patrick S. Ward

New paper on women's seed entrepreneurship in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. 👇Time flexibility + profitability are important factors for women to become seed entrepreneurs. Family & external support are key to women's success in seed businesses. doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.… ISSD Africa

Berber Kramer

Applications are now open for NovaSBE PhD Summer School taught by David McKenzie Students taking the course last time said they learned a lot about how to run experiments, and also had a good time. Join us!

Nothing beats a good competition! Zindi hosted 2 data science challenges to detect drought and other types of damage from crop images📷, for ACRE Africa to scale picture-based insurance. Our winning solutions will be presented March 14th! 👇lu.ma/26qg4mku IFPRI

🐟🌽🐔Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in #Ghana, #Kenya, and #Tanzania. 📝By Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Alessandra Galiè, Tatiana Gumucio, Humphrey Jumba, Berber Kramer, and Catherine Ragasa Catherine Ragasa. 🖱️doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.… CGIAR

Amidst the worst and most unexpected snowstorm of the year, ISID_McGill pulled off a phenomenal panel discussion on farmers in low-income countries, global value chains, and climate and war shocks. Now available on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=0d0EoI…

This is why I can’t go to the triennial ICAE in New Delhi this year…

About a month ago, on Mothers day, We hosted the Pedalmania ladies I.T.T. & it was beautiful!

IFPRI Kenya is hiring a Research Officer for a wide range of my projects on financial inclusion, agricultural technology adoption, gender, often using behavioral experiments and randomized trials; come work with us! ilrijobs.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/ilr…

🌱Developing new crop varieties is a complex, time-consuming process which can take several years. But what happens if these varieties are not adopted by farmers? 🤔 📊 A multicountry, multicrop study explores the factors influencing varietal adoption 👇 cgspace.cgiar.org/items/743e4d2d…

🔔 Don't miss these side events happening at next week's #CGIARScienceWeek organized by: ▪️ Our Evaluation Function | July 2 ➡️ buff.ly/45EOlx2 ▪️ ISDC | July 4 ➡️ buff.ly/3xxCV1u ▪️ CGIAR SPIA | July 5 ➡️ buff.ly/4eyw7Bj #WithScienceWeCan

📢 Looking for Lusaka-based research analyst to work on evaluating impacts of TV program & roadshows on agricultural technology adoption in rural Zambia. Knowledge of STATA and agricultural economics, plus project management experience, are a must. Please email CV if interested!

Hattrick! My 3rd time breaking the tape IRONMAN Rwanda. I’m so grateful to the organizing team and its partners for the opportunity to defend the crown and race in the beautiful land of 1000 hills. Now back in 🇰🇪 to get back @ work 👩🏼‍💻 and training for Ironman World Champs!

🎉 Proud to announce that Dvara E-Registry has been awarded the PICUP Fintech Awards 2023 as the Best Financial Inclusion Provider in the Emerging Start-Up category! 🙌 #PICUP2023 #Fintech #FinancialInclusion

IYKYK … #EconTwitter