This book documents the productivity trends in Sub-Saharan Africa in three different dimensions, assessing productivity at the aggregate level, the sectoral level, and the establishment level.

Food insecurity was once perceived as a ‘developing world problem’. Today, with climate action failures, extreme weather conditions, fragmented value chains, as well as local and geopolitical disruptions, food insecurity is a rapidly growing issue wo...

This book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges.

Digital Transformation of the Agrifood System investigates how digital technologies can accelerate the transformation of the agrifood system by increasing efficiency on the farm; improving farmers’ access to output, input, and financial markets; stre...

A Decade of Action: Building Resilient and Sustainable African Food Systems

We explored risks today and over the next three decades and examined specific cases to understand the mechanisms through which climate change leads to increased socioeconomic risk. This is one of our case studies, focused on agriculture in Africa.

COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to Africa’s food and agriculture sector and to its millions of smallholder farmers. At the same time, the pandemic has accelerated innovative efforts to develop and deploy the transformative power of digital techno...

Senegal's agricultural profile

Uganda's agricultural profile

Research from the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society aims to help African farmers increase their production and profits with better prediction.

Private-sector companies can find practical solutions to enter and grow in Africa’s agricultural market.

Women are disproportionately affected by extreme poverty, climate change and state fragility. More importantly, empowering women has manifold benefits for families, communities and economies.