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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 ...
Ex-ante technology assessment for inclusive poverty reduction and sustainable productivity growth in agriculture (TIGA): A manual
(2016)
The manual presented here is based on the experience and draw out the collected lessons learnt with regard to the design and implementation of the Ex-ante technology assessment and farm household segmentation for inclusive ...
Empowering Smallholder Farmers through Farmer Organizations: Insights from Kenya and Burkina Faso
(2019-12)
The market-driven agricultural transformation of the global food system requires all, directly and indirectly, participating actors to compete efficiently and to adapt to changes in consumer demand and buyer requirements. ...
Improving milk value chains through solar milk cooling
(2018-09)
Smallholder dairy farms are the major providers of marketed milk in Kenya, producing one to ten liters per day. Due to this low production level, farmers are usually associated in cooperatives. Dairy cooperatives are ...
Annual Report 2015: Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation - PARI
(2016-04)
PARI Annual Report 2015 The Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI) brings together partners from Africa, India and Germany to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food and nutrition ...
Of bulls and bulbs: aspirations, opinions and perceptions of rural adolescents and youth in Zambia
(2018-07)
In Africa, policymakers and development practitioners focus heavily on making farming more attractive for the youth. To reach this goal, different actions are proposed, often emphasising the need for modern technology. ...
Strategies for Scaling Agricultural Technologies in Africa
(2018)
Africa agriculture requires a systematic way of bringing technologies with very high potentials to scale. This book aims to bridge this gap in knowledge, by reviewing the existing knowledge on scaling technologies and ...
The Agricultural mechanization in Africa: micro-level analysis of state drivers and effects
(2019-04)
This paper examines the state, drivers and, consequently, the impacts of agricultural mechanization in eleven countries in Africa. Using representative multistage stratified household survey data and robust analytical ...
Yield effects of selected agronomic innovation packages in maize cropping systems of six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-05)
Implementation of suitable innovation packages into cropping systems is required to address the issues of food security and improvement of the crop yield in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, quantification of the effects of ...
Beyond adoption: welfare effects of farmer innovation behavior in Ghana
(2016-05)
With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the ...