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AKADEMIYA2063 Board Seminar – Opportunities for Advancing the Climate & Bioeconomy Agenda in Africa
AKADEMIYA2063 is hosting a high-level seminar in conjunction with its 7th Annual Board Meeting under the theme "Opportunities for Advancing the Climate and Bioeconomy Agenda in Africa". Slated for September 26 in Kigali, from 10:00 AM to 12:40 PM CAT, the event, which will assemble key stakeholders in Rwanda, sets out to enhance Africa's climate action capabilities by providing a platform for strategic dialogue on climate change, adaptation, mitigation, and innovative data and analytics for sustainable interventions.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 60
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #60 provides forecasts for Rice production in Ghana.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 59
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #59 provides forecasts for Maize production in the Gambia.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 58
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #58 provides forecasts for Sorghum production in Ghana.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 57
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #57 provides forecasts for Sorghum production in the Gambia.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 56
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #56 provides forecasts for Sorghum production in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 55
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #55 provides forecasts for Sorghum production in Chad.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 54
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #54 provides forecasts for Sorghum production in Senegal.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 53
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #53 provides forecasts for Groundnut production in Senegal.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 52
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #52 provides forecasts for Millet production in Senegal.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 51
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #51 provides forecasts for Maize production in Senegal.
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2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM)
To support continental-level policy action, the AATM is leading research on trends in African agricultural trade. Published by AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, the annual flagship report uses high-quality data and analysis to review Africa’s progress in trade development, with new analysis on critical topics for agricultural trade. The 2023 AATM analyzes continental and regional trends in African agricultural trade flows and policies, with a special focus on the East African Community (EAC), the cotton value chain, and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on African countries.
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AKADEMIYA2063 Launches 4th Edition of the ReSAKSS Data Challenge
AKADEMIYA2063, through ReSAKSS, has launched the 4th edition of the ReSAKSS Data Challenge, a competition for data users to showcase their skills in developing innovative knowledge products to address African development challenges. The competition has four main categories: Essay or Report, Visual Arts, IT Products and Services/Predictive Modeling, and High School Projects. Contestants will exploit data, reports, reviews, and publications to devise solutions relevant to any given sector, with the opportunity to win up to $US 1,500.
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Africa Climate Week Side Event, September 7, 2023 – Leveraging Finance and Investments for Food Systems Adaptation in Africa
Drawing from the Malabo Montpellier Panel's report ADAPT and the ECDPM's AgrInvest project, AKADEMIYA2063, UNDP Rome Centre and ECDPM are co-organizing a side event during the Africa Climate Week to identify food system financing gaps and showcase lessons learned and best practices from five countries: Benin, Mali, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. The event, which is scheduled on September 7th, 2023 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (EAT), will foster a multi-stakeholder dialogue on the challenges and opportunities for scaling up finance for small-scale farmers, women, youth, and enterprises.
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AFRICA AGRICULTURE TRADE MONITOR (AATM) 2023 – Launching the 6th Edition
AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will launch the 2023 AATM at the Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF), taking place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The 6th edition of the annual flagship report will be unveiled during the "Trade and Markets" plenary on September 6, in the presence of high-level stakeholders from across the continent. The 2023 AATM provides high-quality trade statistics using consistent indicators to monitor trends in Africa’s participation in global trade as well as the status of intra-African trade.
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AGRF Side Event, September 4, 2023 – Transforming African Food Systems
AKADEMIYA2063, in partnership with USDA and AGRA, is organizing a side event at the AGRF 2023 summit to reflect on the challenges and opportunities for data availability, generation, and use in agriculture and food system value chains. Scheduled to take place on September 4, 2023, from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (EAT), the event will also highlight the need for reliable and timely agricultural data and market information for guiding agricultural policies.
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AGRF Partner Event, September 8 – The CAADP BR Process: Promoting Data Use for Evidence-based Decision-making
AKADEMIYA2063, in partnership with BMGF, the CAADP Non-State Actor Coalition, and AGRA, is organizing a partner event at the AGRF 2023 summit to assess current efforts and challenges in promoting the use of CAADP BR data and results. Slated for September 8, 2023, from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM (EAT), the event equally sets out to identify opportunities, tools, incentives, and existing good practices for promoting greater use of CAADP BR data and results for the sustainable transformation of Africa's agriculture and food systems.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 49
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #49 provides forecasts for Sorghum production in Mali.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 48
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #48 provides forecasts for Beans production in Kenya.
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AAgWa Crop Production Forecast Brief – No. 47
The Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa) Production Forecasts by AKADEMIYA2063 aim to provide more accurate & timely statistics about harvest & yield levels for 9 key crops across nearly 50 African countries. AKADEMIYA2063’s Africa Crop Production (AfCP) model is an AI-based forecasting model applied to remotely sensed geo-biophysical data to produce estimates of expected crop yields & harvests at the beginning of every growing season. Brief #47 provides forecasts for Sorghum production in Central African Republic.
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AKADEMIYA2063 Knowledge Products

AKADEMIYA2063 is an Africa-based non-profit research organization with headquarters in Kigali, Rwanda and a regional office in Dakar, Senegal. Its mission is to provide data, policy analysis, and capacity-strengthening support to enable African countries to achieve the African Union’s Agenda 2063 goals of inclusive and sustainable development and economic prosperity. AKADEMIYA2063 conducts strategic analysis to address emerging and time-sensitive topics and to fill knowledge gaps on priority issues faced by Africa. Our research findings, AKADEMIYA2063 Knowledge Products, are published in flagship reports and other research publications to support evidence-based decision-making toward accelerating Africa’s broader development goals.

AKADEMIYA2063 ON THE UKRAINE CRISIS

Exposure and Vulnerability to Global Fertilizer Trade and Market...

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Nigeria is a major fertilizer producer in Africa. However, it still relies on the global market to meet its...
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Global Wheat Trade and Market Disruptions: Income and Food Security Effects for Nigeria

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The Russia-Ukraine conflict has introduced severe disruptions into international grain trade as the two ...
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Exposure of African Economies to Global Commodity Trade and ...

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The economic impacts of the global market disruptions brought on by the Russia-Ukraine...
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Wheat Production Outlook in Morocco amid the Ukraine Crisis

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Global grain supply chains have been disrupted by the Russia-Ukraine war, raising the threat of food insecurity ...
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AKADEMIYA2063's RESOURCES ON COVID-19

Mapping community vulnerability to identify potential major hot spots

Workstream 1

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted lives across the globe in just a few months. And yet, there are no...

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Tracking food staples price changes and their impact on food and nutrition security

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The pandemic is likely to be more disruptive to local food markets and thus have more serious effects on the...

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Food production systems disruption and effects on communities and the national economy

Workstream 3

From effects on access to seeds and fertilizers, limited movement of goods, declining demand, to labor...

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Global trade disruption and the effects on economic growth and livelihoods

Workstream 4

The pandemic has not left a single region of the world untouched. Its disruptive effects have equally reached...

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Mission and Vision

AKADEMIYA2063’s overall mission is to create, across Africa and led from Rwanda, state-of-the art technical capacities to support the efforts by the Member States of the African Union to achieve the key goals of the agenda 2063 of transforming national economies to boost growth and prosperity.

Our History

AKADEMIYA2063 was established to continue and expand the portfolio of policy research and capacity-strengthening support for the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which was initiated and previously incubated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This portfolio has included three main programs: the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), the African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium, and the Malabo Montpellier Panel (MaMo Panel).