The Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Pauvreté et la Sécurité Alimentaire Durable (LARPSAD) is a food security, poverty alleviation, and socio-economics focussed research centre within the Université de Lomé. The LARPSAD aims to provide a suitable framework to tackle the concerns of the African economies.
LARPSAD’s research focuses on the following areas:
- food security and nutrition
- agro-economics
- poverty and microfinance
- trade liberalisation and macroeconomic theory.
In collaboration with numerous international and regional partners, the LARPSAD aims to meet the following objectives:
- to undertake evaluations of development and research projects
- to carry out financial and accounting consultations for national and international development organisations
- to organise seminars and conferences.
The website contains information on the organisation structure and its staff, list of projects currently running and already completed, partner institutions, and contact information. In addition, the website contains a number of French publications available for download.