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agrodealer and inputs (13 Results)
Agrodealer and Inputs
Measuring Changes In The Senegal’s Agri-Food System
SenegalIFPRI

Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieve the USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “Inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and dow...

Agrodealer and Inputs
Estimating Acid Soil Effects On Selected Cereal Crop Productivities In Ethiopia
EthiopiaJAMES M. WARNER, MICHAEL L. MANN, JORDAN CHAMBERLI...

Acid soils are a major constraint to agricultural productivity in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia. Restoring soil pH to optimal ranges for agriculture can have a significant impact on yields, particularly for acid-tolerant crops...

Agrodealer and Inputs
Smallholder Farmers’ Participation In Profitable Value Chains And Contract Farming
EgyptMARTIN PAUL JR. TABE-OJONG AND KIBROM A. ABAY

The participation of smallholder farmers in high-value and profitable value chains as well as contract farming remains low in Africa. This paper aims to identify observable and unobservable constraints that explain joint participation in profitable v...

Agrodealer and Inputs
Agricultural Input Markets in Ghana: A Descriptive Assessment of Input Dealers in Eight Districts
GhanaSETH ASANTE, KWAW S. ANDAM, ANDREW M. SIMONS, FELI...

This paper provides a description of the agricultural input market in Ghana in 2019 across six districts with high maize production and two municipal districts noted for agricultural marketing activities. Since 2017, Ghana’s agricultural policy has b...

Agrodealer and Inputs
Farm Input Subsidies and Commodity Market Trends in Ghana: An Analysis of Market Prices During 2012–2020
GhanaSENA AMEWU, EUNICE ARHIN AND KARL PAUW

Ghana has a long history of intervening in food markets to balance consumers’ expectations of low and stable food prices, farmers’ demands for high farmgate prices, and traders’ demand for predictability in seasonal price patterns.

Agrodealer and Inputs
Africa Agricultural Trade Monitor 2021
All CountriesAntoine Bouet et.al.

2021 has brought enormous challenges as well as opportunities for Africa’s agricultural trade. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect human health and welfare as well as economic activity in Africa and around the globe. 2021 also marked the launch...

Agrodealer and Inputs
A Kenyan Farmer's Perspective on Agroecological Techniques
All CountriesAlliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

A Kenyan Farmer's Perspective on Agroecological Techniques

Agrodealer and Inputs
Social Impact Through Strategic Alignment Case Study
All CountriesEVPA

The vision of our Foundation is a bright future for smallholder farming. The Foundation strengthens the farming & #FoodSystems by catalyzing market developments, the delivery of innovations while building capacity across public & private s...

Agrodealer and Inputs
The 2020 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (2020 AATM) Report
All CountriesAntoine Bouët, ed., Sunday P. Odjo, ed., Chahir Za...

As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, policy reactions among the world’s leading food and agricultural producers have led to disruptions in world supply chains, threatening food security systems in food import-dependent countries. African governments...

Agrodealer and Inputs
Improving Crop Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa - What Does the East African Data Say
Alun H. Thomas

Recent micro level data from East Africa is used to benchmark aggregate data and assess the role of agricultural inputs in explaining variation in crop yields on smallholding plots. Fertilizer, improved seeds, protection against erosion and pesticide...

Agrodealer and Inputs
Making Cocoa Farming More Sustainable And Profitable Through Access To Credit For Productivity Inputs
Cote d'IvoireThe Sustainable Trade Initiative

To support the cocoa sector and help smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire access needed credit, IDH, Barry Callebaut and IFC entered into a risk sharing partnership of USD 9 million to cover up to 103,000 smallholder cocoa farmers in Cote d’Ivo...

Agrodealer and Inputs
Too Much of a Good Thing? Evidence that Fertilizer Subsidies Lead to Over-application in Egypt
EgyptSIKANDRA KURDI, MAI MAHMOUD, KIBROM A. ABAY, CLEME...

As part of a national policy to ensure a certain level of food self-sufficiency in strategic crops, the government of Egypt subsidizes nitrogen fertilizer directly by distributing quotas of subsidized fertilizers to farmers and indirectly by subsi...

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