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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 ...
Harvesting Solar Power in India
(2016-09)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set an ambitious target of 100,000 MW of solar power capacity to be achieved by 2022, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of ...
Frontier analysis and agricultural typologies
(2018-03)
PARI’s main goal is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India by supporting the scaling of proven innovations in the agri-food sector in collaboration with all relevant actors. ...
Regional trade and volatility in staple food markets in Africa
(2015-06)
This paper deals with the role of regional trade in fostering the resilience of domestic food markets. Using country production and trade data from FAOSTAT database, a series of simple indicators are calculated that shed ...
Mechanization in African Agriculture: A Continental Overview on Patterns and Dynamics
(2018-06)
This study provides an overview on the patterns and dynamics of mechanization in African agriculture over the 10 year period (2005-2014). Farm level and value chain related mechanization are considered. This study looks ...
Foreign direct investment in the African food and agriculture sector: trends, determinants and impacts
(2019-04)
In this paper, we seek to answer three research questions: (1) What is the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the African food and agriculture sector in the last 15 years? (2) What are the drivers of FDI in the ...
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. ...
Honey Bee Network in Africa: Co-creating a Grassroots Innovation Ecosystem in Africa
(2019-02)
This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network’s decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap for its replication in Africa. The ...
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 ...
African agricultural mechanization: Myths, realities and an emerging research agenda
(2019-12)
African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a ...