Author: CARLOS CANELLES QUARONI

Approximately 50 million pastoralists in West Africa depend on rangelands that are increasingly threatened by drought. When forage fails, families face a stark choice: sell their livestock at crisis prices or lose them entirely. A new Policy Brief from the PRISMA project presents a regional index-based livestock insurance scheme designed to change that equation — …

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF), in collaboration with the PRISMA Project, organised a high-level regional summit on 11 and 12 November 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria. The event, held in collaboration with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Livestock Development, had as its main purpose to promote the transformation …

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Enrique Estefanía Salazar, researcher at CEIGRAM-UPM, presented the Spanish model as an example of a robust, resilient system that can be exported to other contexts. The Conference on Financial Resilience in Agriculture, organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) from 11 to 13 June. The event brought together …

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On 26 November, INERA hosted a crucial training session for stakeholders in the dairy and animal feed sectors. The main aim of the session was to raise participants’ awareness of the dangers of aflatoxins, toxins produced by certain moulds, and to provide them with practical advice on how to prevent their presence in milk. Training …

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Insurance Indexed in the framework of the PRISMA project From 17 to 19 February, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) to disseminate the results of the PRISMA project, an initiative that aims to develop productive, resilient and healthy agro-pastoral systems in West Africa. This event brought together international experts, representatives of regional organisations …

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The director of the Food Reserve for West Africa, Dr. Malick Lompo, visited CEIGRAM on October 24, where he joined Fernando Escribano, the Coordinator of the Feed & Aflatoxins section of the PRISMA Project, to discuss the challenges and progress in food security in West Africa. The Food Reserve, managed by the Regional Agency for …

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In December 2023, John Makinde, a researcher from the Federal University of Gashua in Nigeria, arrived at the Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM) for a 6-month research stay. This visit was funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) through the AFRICA-MED programme, which aims to promote …

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Eva Iglesias, Enrique Estefanía and the PRISMA Project Team members are participating in the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economics: ‘Transformation towards sustainable agri-food systems’. Organized by the International Association of Agricultural Economists, that is taking part in New Delhi, from August 2 to 7. On Saturday, Eva Iglesias presented the ‘Adoption of Nature-Based Solutions …

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