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Beyond adoption: welfare effects of farmer innovation behavior in Ghana
Tambo, Justice A.; Wünscher, Tobias (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 ... -
Beyond kinship and tribe: New forms of solidarity and interest representation in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan
Kandiwal, Wali Mohammad (2016-12)In this paper, I show that the establishment of unauthorized settlements on government land in the newly urbanizing peripheries of Jalalabad – the second-fastest growing city of Afghanistan – corresponded with the emergence ... -
Bioeconomic Entrepreneurship and Key Factors of Development: Lessons from Argentina
Dürr, Jochen; Sili, Marcelo (2022-02-21)For Argentina, a country with large biomass availability, scientific-technological capacities and a strong agro-industrial sector, bioeconomy comes with an opportunity for sustainable local and national development. As ... -
Bioökonomie in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Eine Studie zur Neuausrichtung der NRW Bioökonomiestrategie ; Abschlussbericht
Stark, Sascha; Rhyner, Jakob; Börner, Jan; Kopaleyshvili, Alexandra; Middelhauve, Stella (2021-09-28)Um die Eckpunkte einer neuen Bioökonomiestrategie NRW zielgruppengerecht zu formulieren, sollten im Rahmen dieser Studie lokale Potenziale und bioökonomische Initiativen auf Kreisebene identifiziert werden. Für einen ... -
Boost Nature Positive Production: A paper on Action Track 3
Hodson, Elizabeth; Niggli, Urs; Kitajima, Kaoru; Lal, Rattan; Sadoff, Claudia (2021-04-02)Transforming food systems involves five action tracks: i) access to safe and nutritious food, ii) sustainable consumption, iii) nature-positive production, iv) equitable livelihood, and v) resilience to shocks and stress. ... -
Boundaries and Identities: The Case of Gilgit-Baltistan
Dad, Aziz Ali (2016-06)The main argument of the paper is that the absence of Gilgit-Baltistan in the power dispensation and state structure of Pakistan has created a power vacuum in the society, which is gradually filled by sectarian forces, ... -
Building digital bridges in African value chains: Use and impact of digital technologies among agricultural intermediaries
Baumüller, Heike (2023-01)High hopes have been pinned on digital agricultural (D4Ag) solutions to increase agricultural productivity and food security in Africa. Such solutions provide digitally enabled services to agricultural producers and other ... -
Building Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks and Stresses: A paper on Action Track 5
Hertel, Thomas W.; Elouafi, Ismahane; Ewert, Frank; Tanticharoen, Morakot (2021-03-08)Transforming food systems involves five action tracks: i) access to safe and nutritious food, ii) sustain- able consumption, iii) nature-positive production, iv) equitable livelihood, and v) resilience to shocks and stress. ... -
Burkina Faso - Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Sylla, Mouhamadou Bamba; Dimobe, Kangbéni; Sanfo, Safietou (2021-01)In this working paper, the biophysical factors and socio-economic conditions that led to Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULC) and land degradation in Burkina Faso are reviewed. It is found that the country is densely ... -
Can Mobile Money Facilitate Cash Transfers to Farmers and the Rural Poor in the COVID-19 Context?
Greco, Angelica (2020-06)Mobile money is widespread across Africa. The GSMA reports that around half of the 1 billion mobile money accounts worldwide were registered in Africa in 2019. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone, mobile money transactions ... -
Can the agroprocessing sector create jobs in Africa?: Evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia
Kubik, Zaneta; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Omari, Rose; Oueslati Zlaoui, Meriem (2022-07)This paper analyzes the potential of the agroprocessing sector to create jobs in Africa, based on the evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia. The analysis uses both primary qualitative data and secondary quantitative ... -
Can the agroprocessing sector create jobs in Africa?: Evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia
Konok, Khadeja Akter; Kubik, Zaneta; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Omari, Rose; Oueslati Zlaoui, Meriem (2024-04)The lack of adequate employment opportunities continues to be one of the principal challenges hindering poverty reduction efforts in Africa. Despite sustained economic growth – at least until the Covid-19 pandemic – the ... -
Carbon farming in Africa: Opportunities and challenges for engaging smallholder farmers
Schilling, Friederike; Baumüller, Heike; Ecuru, Julius; von Braun, Joachim (2023-03)The IPCC stresses the importance of achieving net-zero CO2 emissions worldwide by 2050 and natural climate solutions, particularly carbon farming, can play a significant role in this goal. However, current markets do not ... -
The challenges of rural youth employment in Africa: a literature review
Kubik, Zaneta (2022-05)This paper provides a literature review on youth employment challenges in rural Africa. The rapidly changing demographic structure across the continent is expected to have important economic and social consequences, ... -
Change in crop management strategies could double the maize yield in Africa
Eyshi Rezaei, Ehsan; Gaiser, Thomas (2017-07)Change in cropping practices is required to address the food security issues in Africa. Yet, testing of the performance of such changes, in particular at large scales, often needs significant investments. Crop models are ... -
China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective
Shanatibieke, Mayinu (2016-04)This paper discusses the current situation of China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective. My aim is to rethink modernity in the Chinese context and its impact on Kazakhs in Xinjiang, to discuss ... -
Climate Change and Food Systems: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit, May 2021
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Olsson, Lennart; Bezner Kerr, Rachel; Pradhan, Prajal; Rivera Ferre, Marta Guadalupe; Lotze-Campen, Hermann (2021-05-01)Climate change affects the functioning of all the components of food systems, often in ways that exacerbate existing predicaments and inequalities between regions of the world and groups in society. At the same time, food ... -
Comparing African Countries and Indian States: Lessons for promoting agricultural growth, employment and food security
Baumüller, Heike; Gulati, Ashok; Jose, Shyma; Kornher, Lukas; Usman, Muhammed; von Braun, Joachim (2021-11)What may be learned from Africa and India on how they transform their food and agriculture sectors to provide affordable and healthy diets for all? And what are potential insights that may inform future strategic directions ... -
The complementarity of education and productive inputs among smallholder farmers in Africa
Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo (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 ... -
Comprehensive Livestock Driven Typology for Food and Nutrition Security in Mali
Dembele, Bandiougou; Sall, Moussa; Fall, Cheickh Sadibou (2022-02)To guide the selection and design of appropriate interventions for increasing the production and consumption of animal-sourced foods, in this paper we propose a spatial typology based on a comprehensive food and nutrition ...