PASSN has partnered with SAGA to increase communication between policy makers and researchers.   

SAGA (Strategies and Analysis for Growth and Access), a project of Cornell and Clark-Atlanta Universities, is a cooperative agreement supported by USAID, specifically the Africa Bureau’s Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD) and the EGAT Offices of Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction (EGAT/EG and EGAT/PR). SAGA brings together key personnel having extensive experience in Africa as researchers, teachers, policymakers, and consultants, to offer a different perspective on growth and poverty reduction.  SAGA conducts research and offers technical assistance on a variety of topics, including education and human capital, health and nutrition, risk and vulnerability, and empowerment and institutions.

SAGA Events at USAID:

May 18 Agricultural Technology, Productivity, Food Security and Poverty in Madagascar (text-only)- A presentation by Dr. Christopher Barrett

April 22 HIV/AIDS Prevention Knowledge, Prevention Behavior (text-only) - A presentation by Dr. David Sahn

February 3 Primary Schooling Demand in Rural Madagascar (text-only)- A presentation by Dr. Peter Glick

To view publications by SAGA, click here (text-only).

SAGA News:

New Cornell Adult University CyberTower Study Room on Food Aid

Cornell's Online Adult University has launched a new “study room” on international food aid featuring Christopher Barrett, a Cornell University Professor and Co-Investigator with SAGA.  Professor Barrett examines how food aid has evolved, to what extent it fulfills its humanitarian and economic development and other, donor-oriented objectives today, and what challenges it now faces. To access the study room, which provides free access with registration, click here.