Inputs distributor Agrigrow has doubled its sales in Tanzania with a Facebook campaign supported by AgDevCo’s Smallholder Development Unit. This report profiles some of their new, young, tech-savvy customers.

Building on analysis and lessons learned, these reports provide recommendations to strengthen and institutionalize linkages between disaster risk finance and social protection to make systems more shock-responsive.

The ‘Accelerating Private Sector Investments in Green Mini-Grids’ report, as a key takeaway from the ARE Energy Access Investment Forum 2023, presents an overview of the Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) mini-grids sector in Africa

Moreover, the RFS underscores the importance of adopting a nexus approach that integrates food security, agriculture, environment, socio-economic, and climate considerations.

The specific objectives of the project specifically aim to set indicative Renewable Energy targets at regional level that are to be harmonized with national targets.

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Technical Assistance (TA) has proved to be one of the main contributory elements that improves the state of agricultural statistics in Africa. It has enabled National Agricultural Statistics Systems (NASS) to achieve skills in the production chain of...

The agricultural sector’s significant position in an economy and high potential benefits of agricultural transformation give developing countries major opportunities, especially for youth, to commercially start an agricultural enterprise. Increasing...

This note provides an assessment of the first year of implementation of the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) from the perspective of rural households and communities in Malawi. The data come from a nationally representative panel survey of 2,449 rur...

This paper compares agricultural productivity growth, specifically, the impact of agricultural mechanisation on total factor productivity and cereal yields, across African countries using contemporaneous and sequential Malmquist index approaches. Con...

Ethiopia hosts one of the largest extension systems in Africa, with approximately 43 development agents (DAs) per 10,000 farmers, more than 15,000 farmers training centers (FTCs) that serve as a focal point for agricultural development activities at...

Technological solutions to the agriculture sector’s challenges are on the rise in Africa — but can farmers and others in the sector actually use these to transform the continent into an agricultural powerhouse