Dear colleagues, partners, and friends,

Welcome to the 3^rd 2025 newsletter of The Pan-African Network for economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP)!

1. News & events

PANAP Membership

Individual members of the Pan-African Network for the Economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP) contributed to the shared mission to strengthen the liaison between researchers/scientists and policymakers in Africa, and to stimulate cooperation on selected policy priorities that reinforce the stability and enhance the development of African agriculture and food sectors.

The Network wishes to extend its our membership to include organizations/institutions (NGOs, Universities, Research Institutions, Donors etc) that align with our vision to contribute to and benefit from this growing community.

We wish to encourage your organization/Institution to officially come on board.

Benefits to Organizational/Institutional members include:

• Access to collaborative projects and funding opportunities
• Visibility across the network’s regional and online platforms
• Priority invitations to capacity-building events and partnerships
• Priority invitations to available research funding
• A voice in shaping network policy and direction

Refer to the PANAP Charter for a detailed list of topics, benefits, and the full governance structure of the network.

If you think your organization would be interested, simply fill out the application form.

2. Spotlight

PANAP Mentorship Programme for African Researchers

PANAP is organising a one-year mentorship programme for (early-career) researcher of African nationality, working on sustainable agriculture and rural development in Africa.

Besides mentorship from a senior researcher from the JRC and partners to develop a co-authored publication for a high-impact agricultural economics journal, selected mentees can benefit from

• Access to cleaned datasets and/or
• A new JRC farm-level model and
• Full funding for participation in the 8th African Conference of Agricultural Economists (ACAE).

More information on the programme, the application requirements and process can be found in this Call for Research Proposals.

Deadline for application: 15 December 2025.

3. Upcoming events

GTAP 29th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis June 17-19, 2026, Kyoto (Japan)

PANAP is offering support for the participation of one African researcher at the annual GTAP Conference.

The aim is to encourage applied, policy-relevant research relating to African agri-food system issues using CGE modelling.

To be considered for this opportunity, applicants must:

• be an African national and a PANAP member. If interested, please proceed with a (free) membership application. For enquiries on the membership, please feel free to JRC-PANAP@ec.europa.eu
• actively engaged in conducting policy-relevant, CGE model-based analyses of African agri-food system issues or dealing with parameter or data issues to support such analyses.
• upload their CV and the finished version of their paper on the abstract submission form.

If interested, please review the information in the email below or on the conference homepage for further details.

8th African Conference of Agricultural Economists (ACAE)

The African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) opened the Paper Submissions Portal for the 8th. The conference will be held 22–25 September 2026 in Nairobi (Kenya), under the theme: “Smart Agriculture: Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Trade for a Climate-Challenged Africa.”

Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are invited to submit their work and contribute to critical conversations on advancing Africa’s agricultural transformation at the online submission portal: https://aaae-africa.events/submissions/

4. Recent publications

JRC Working Papers on Economic Analysis of Policies in Africa

• 2025-07 The Impact of the EU Deforestation Regulation on Cocoa - Markets, Trade and Forest Conservation
• 2025-11 Intermediaries in the West-African cocoa sector: a buyer and producer perspective
• 2025-11 The Nigerien economy in detail: A Social Accounting Matrix for 2019
• 2025-11 The 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for South Africa: Construction and estimation

If you are interested in publishing your work, please contact us: JRC-PANAP@ec.europa.eu

Reports:

• AfCFTA: Updated Analysis of Trade, Economic Outcomes, and Policy Implications

Dashboards:

• SAM Niger
• SAM South Africa
• AfCFTA: updated analysis of trade, economic outcomes, and policy implications
• GHG emissions calculator based on Kenya SAM multipliers

Journal articles:

• On the positive economic impacts of port infrastructure development and seaborne trade efficiencies in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Senegal
• Agroforestry as a climate change adaptation strategy: Evidence from Ghana's cocoa sector
• Trade policies for low-carbon development in developing countries: Insights from Kenya

For Further information

PANAP Secretariat

European Commission - Joint Research Centre

Email: JRC-PANAP@ec.europa.eu

Website: https://datam.jrc.ec.europa.eu/datam/area/PANAP

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