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From Potentials to Reality: Transforming Africa’s Food Production: Investment and policy priorities for sufficient, nutritious and sustainable food supplies
(2020-10)
This study identifies ways in which Africa can realize its potential to secure a supply of food for affordable and healthy diets through the sustainable use of its own resources. The focus is on investment, cooperation, ...
Adapting to an American world: the asymmetrical coupling of American and Chinese education
(2021-10)
The extensive study-abroad consulting industry that prepares Chinese students for American schools exemplifies, and is conditioned by, the asymmetry in Sino-American educational connectivity. Mobility from China to the ...
Interculturalidad como praxis educativa comunitaria decolonial: El proceso de la Universidad Intercultural Autónoma Indígena del Cauca (Colombia)
(2022)
En las últimas dos décadas han surgido diferentes modelos interculturales desde la academia y los gobiernos latinoamericanos para incorporar a los sujetos ‘otros’ dentro de los proyectos educativos y nacionales más amplios, ...
Vocational Education and Training for Farmers and Other Actors in the Agri-Food Value Chain in Africa
(2018-01)
The study analyzes the current state of Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) in Africa and presents its challenges and opportunities. A review of the ATVET in selected Sub-Saharan Africa ...
The complementarity of education and productive inputs among smallholder farmers in Africa
(2019-04)
This study seeks to assess the complementarity of education and use of use of agricultural inputs–improved seeds, fertilizers, access to credit facilities (loans)), and the incremental effects of education on intermediate ...
Von den Potenzialen zur Realität: Wie die afrikanische Lebensmittelproduktion gesteigert werden kann: Investitionen und politische Prioritäten für eine ausreichende, nährstoffreiche und nachhaltige Lebensmittelversorgung
(2020-10)
Diese Studie zeigt Wege auf, wie Afrika sein Potenzial zur Sicherung der Versorgung mit Nahrungsmitteln für eine erschwingliche und gesunde Ernährung durch die nachhaltige Nutzung seiner eigenen Ressourcen ausschöpfen kann. ...
Leveling the playing field for women in African agriculture: Interventions to address gender-based inequalities
(2020-03)
Women provide about 40% of agricultural labour in Africa (albeit with variations across countries), excluding time allocated to livestock, food processing and marketing. Most of that time is spent on crop production. Despite ...
Women in African Agriculture: Integrating Women into Value Chains to Build a Stronger Sector
(2018-10)
Women are under-acknowledged participants in Africa’s agriculture and food sector, supplying a large share of the labour, but facing significant obstacles, including unequal access to land, traditional division of labour, ...
Skill Development in Indian Agriculture and Food Processing Sectors: A Scoping Exercise
(2019-09)
The a griculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the majority of whom are not very educated and lack formal or informal skill training. Hence, they are unable ...