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Steve Wiggins

Steve is an agricultural economist who has worked on agricultural and rural development since 1972, as planner, teacher and researcher initially in Latin America, subsequently focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. He joined ODI in 2002. His interests centre on rural livelihoods, agricultural development, rural poverty, and food and nutrition security.

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Technical report

This study builds on earlier SPARC-IDRC research on food prices in Mali and Sudan by looking at subsequent price changes and their drivers, effects, and public responses from 2023 to mid-2025.
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Policy brief

This policy brief outlines clear actions that Ministers in the G5 Sahel, aid partners, funders and researchers can take to drive a rural green transition and create jobs for youth in the region.
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Technical report

The challenges of food security and economic development in fragile contexts have become urgent. This report asks what more can be done to address food security in such contexts using private sector solutions.
An elderly man looks across his field as a man guides two cattle who are ploughing the black soil
Policy brief

This policy brief, developed for the UK’s 2023 Global Food Security Summit, summarises insights from recent SPARC research on how to bolster food security in countries affected by conflict and protracted crises.
A woman stoops over a lush green field of rice with hills blurred in the background
Evidence review

Farming after fighting: a report that examines agricultural recovery after conflict, using global case studies to extract insights and gather learnings.

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Blog

This blog summarises the findings of a recently published report from SPARC, that looks at the spike in food prices in Mali and Sudan between 2019-2022, in part pushed higher by war in Ukraine.
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Blog

Read here about the effects of the Russian-Ukrainian war on commodity prices (wheat and fertiliser) and policy implications for countries in North and sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East