Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI): Recent submissions
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Improving Protein Nutrition of Dairy Cattle in the tropics: The case of East Africa
Bateki, Christian A.; Salazar-Cubillas, Khaterine; Wassie, Shimels S.; Sainz-Sánchez, Pedro A.; Dickhöfer, Uta (2019-06)In East Africa, dairy production is growing at an average rate of 2.7% per year. The increasing demand for milk may offer considerable income opportunities for small- to medium-scale dairy farmers, and thereby alleviate ... -
Mechanizing African Agriculture: Drivers, Barriers and Benefits
Baraké, Evelyn; Kirui, Oliver K. (2019-11)Agricultural technologies that reduce the need for intensive manual labour make it possible for farmers to cultivate more land more effectively. This can increase both incomes and total food production, with significant ... -
Leveling the playing field for women in African agriculture: Interventions to address gender-based inequalities
Baraké, Evelyn; Njiraini, Georgina; Ngigi, Marther (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 ... -
Documenting the digital transformation of African agriculture: Use and impact of digital technologies among agricultural intermediaries
Baumüller, Heike; Ikpi, Ubi; Jumpah, Emmanuel Tetteh; Kamau, Geoffrey M.; Kergna, Alpha O.; Mose, Lawrence; Nientao, Abdoulaye; Omari, Rose; Phillip, Dayo; Salasya, Beatrice D. (2022-06)Agricultural intermediaries perform important functions in the African food and agriculture sector. Digital solutions targeted at these intermediaries could improve their service delivery while helping digital agricultural ... -
What are the Effects of Agricultural Mechanization?: A case study from Zambia
Heni, Jakob; Daum, Thomas; Adu-Baffour, Ferdinand; Birner, Regina (2020-03)During the last decade, governments, private actors as well as civil society and development partners have joined efforts to promote a productivity revolution in Africa’s agriculture. For this, smallholder farmers are key, ... -
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 ... -
The Forgotten Agriculture-Nutrition Link: Estimating the energy requirements of different farming technologies in rural Zambia
Heni, Jakob; Daum, Thomas; Capezzone, Filippo; Birner, Regina (2020-03)Worldwide, 821 million people do not have access to enough calories, they are undernourished. In addition, close to two billion people lack micronutrients, they are malnourished and suffer from hidden hunger. Smallholder ... -
Von den Potenzialen zur Realität: Wie die afrikanische Lebensmittelproduktion gesteigert werden kann: Investitionen und politische Prioritäten für eine ausreichende, nährstoffreiche und nachhaltige Lebensmittelversorgung
Baumüller, Heike; von Braun, Joachim; Admassie, Assefa; Badiane, Ousman; Baraké, Evelyn; Börner, Jan; Bozic, Izidora; Chichaibelu, Bezawit B.; Collins, Julia; Daum, Thomas; Gatiso, Tsegaye; Gerber, Nicolas; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Glatzel, Katrin; Hendriks, Sheryl; Kirui, Oliver K.; Kornher, Lukas; Kubik, Zaneta; Luedeling, Eike; Mirzabaev, Alisher; Ndiaye, Papa Gora; Sakketa, Tekalign; Shah, Meera; Tadesse, Getaw; Walakira, John (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. ... -
Like Uber for Tractors?: How to strengthen the rural sharing economy in India and Africa
Daum, Thomas; Baumüller, Heike (2020-07)With even basic models costing 10.000 Euro, tractors are out of reach for most smallholder farmers. However, farmers do not need to own tractors in order to benefit from them. Following the idea of the sharing economy, ... -
Emerging Impacts of COVID–19 on the South African Food and Beverage Manufacturing Sector
Dallimore, Anthea (2020-08)This brief presents the result of a rapid assessment on how the lockdown measures have affected the performance of the South African food and beverage manufacturing industry and the critical issues that firms face during ... -
Emerging Impacts of COVID–19 on the Nigerian Food and Beverage Manufacturing Sector
Velia, Myriam; Dallimore, Anthea (2020-08)This brief presents the result of a rapid assessment on how the containment measures have affected the performance of the Nigerian food and beverage manufacturing industry and what measure companies need to support them ... -
Emerging Impacts of COVID–19 on the Kenyan Food and Beverage Manufacturing Sector
Velia, Myriam (2020-08)This brief presents the result of a rapid assessment on how the containment measures have affected the performance of the Kenyan food and beverage manufacturing industry and what measure companies need to support them ... -
Covid-19 causes unprecedented Migrant Crisis in India: Assessing the impact of lockdown measures on migrant workers during the first wave of Covid-19
Rothenberger, Paula; Gulati, Ashok; Jose, Shyma; Singh, B.B. (2021-05)The second wave of Covid-19 is sweeping across India at an immense speed. India recorded the highest number of single-day Covid-19 cases in the world (354,531), surpassing Brazil and the USA (as of 25 April 2021). The ... -
Resilience of Africa’s Food and Beverage Manufacturing Sector: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Rothenberger, Paula; Baumüller, Heike; Kubik, Zaneta; Dallimore, Anthea; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Velia, Myriam (2021-05)Outbreaks of various epidemics or pandemics have been recurrent throughout history. However, a pandemic of such a global scale as the Covid-19 pandemic can be considered as an unprecedented crisis in modern days. To contain ... -
Towards a Digital One-Stop-Shop for African Producers?: Strategic Decisions of Digital Agricultural Platform Providers
von Bismarck-Osten, Matthias (2021-06)The rapid spread of the mobile phone across Africa has stimulated a large number of digital services targeted at small-scale producers. More ecently, such services are increasingly being bundled and offered via integrated ... -
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 ... -
Annual Report 2015: Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation - PARI
von Braun, Joachim (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 ... -
Strategies for Scaling Agricultural Technologies in Africa
Ajayi, M. Tunde; Oluwole, Fatunbi; Akinbamijo, Yemi (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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...