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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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Aishetu Mahmoudu Hama, 23, in a school classroom in Makalondi, Tilaberri Region, Niger - Image by Kelley Lynch / GPE - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

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.
A farmer in Menz, Ethiopia gets help from her 10 year old daughter in keeping her sheep.

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.
Ploughing with cattle in southwestern Ethiopia. Credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann
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.
Rice Farmers in Cambodia

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

This study looks at food prices in Mali and Sudan to see how they changed between 2019 and mid-2022, when the prices of global basic goods spiked, in part pushed higher by war in Ukraine.

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wheat field
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.
Two women sit among bags of cassava flour outdoors. One woman pours flour from a container into a large plastic bowl held by the other woman.
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

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