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Strengthening Start-Up Ecosystems for Bio-Based Innovations in the Food Sector: Lessons from East Africa
(2024-06)
The bioeconomy is emerging as a significant driver of economic growth and sustainability thinking
globally and in East Africa. Leveraging bioscience knowledge, tools and techniques, research
organisations and start-ups ...
Modelling the Economy-Wide Impact of Technological Innovation and Mapping Agricultural Potential: The case of Burkina Faso
(2019-11)
In this study, we develop an economy wide model for Burkina Faso to assess the most promising opportunities for technological innovations to enhance maize production and productivity and their economywide effects. We ...
Governance of the bioeconomy: A global comparative study of national bioeconomy strategies
(2018-07)
More than forty states worldwide currently pursue explicit political strategies to expand and promote their bioeconomies. This paper assesses these strategies in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals ...
Ethiopia - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
(2021-01)
Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than
110 million. With over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest
growing economies in the ...
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 ...
On the use of agricultural system models for exploring technological innovations across scales in Africa: A critical review
(2016-07)
The major challenge of the 21st century is to achieve food security under, roughly, a doubling in food demand by 2050 compared to present, and producing the additional food under marked shifts in climatic risks and with ...