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Agribusiness SMEs
Agriculture as a Buffer in COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Five Sub-Saharan African Countries
All CountriesWorld Bank

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have not been spared from the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Articulating a policy response to the impact of COVID-19 requires understanding how and which households have been impacted and if households...

Agribusiness SMEs
Strategies for Transforming Smallholder Farming in Africa
All CountriesFARA

This book comprises ten chapters that run an exhaustive analysis of all the issues in smallholder agriculture. It reviews the state of knowledge on the different components of the systems that require a change to ensure a smooth transformation for t...

Storage
The Green Table: A Simple Way of Differentiating Agroecological Products
All CountriesAlliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

The Green Table: A Simple Way of Differentiating Agroecological Products

Food Fortification
Improving Lives with Nutritious Crops and Foods in 2020
All CountriesHarvestPlus

HarvestPlus and its partners strive to provide better nutrition through staple crops to millions of smallholder farming families. We have kept our focus on this goal amidst the devastating COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. With farmers around the world...

Food Security Monitor (November 2020)
All CountriesAGRA

Key highlights from the November Food Security Monitor include: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and South Sudan continued to show very high levels of food insecurity with more than 50% of the population in these countries having insufficient food for co...

Agribusiness SMEs
Impact Investing A Sustainable Opportunity for MSMEs in Nigeria
NigeriaGIZ

The impact investing sector has become a thriving and growing market, since the term was first coined in 2007 by the Rockefeller Foundation – “investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact al...

Agribusiness SMEs
An Improved Enabling Environment Opened New Opportunity for Farmers Organizations in Amhara
EthiopiaAGRA Grantee in Ethiopia

In the 10 years that Girum Tessema has worked for Merkeb Union, he has seen it grow in impressive style. The Merkeb FCU is multipurpose union that was established in June 2001 with 19 primary cooperatives (PCs) and with Birr 1.14 million capital....

Research and Development
Women SMEs and COVID-19: AGRA Survey Report
All CountriesAGRA

As countries in Africa continue to take measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19, women in agriculture are disproportionately affected by the measures than men. The pandemic is exacerbating existing structural economic, social, and technologica...

Research and Development
Implementation of Stewardship in African Agricultural Public Research and Development Institutions
All CountriesWalter S. Alhassan, Vivienne Anthony, Patrick Rude...

The commercial use of biotech crops developed using genetic modification (GM) technologies is very limited in sub-Saharan African agriculture. Efforts are on-going to address this. The need to implement best practices in stewardship to support the r...

Research and Development
Sustainable and Equitable Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Productivity and Consumption are Needed to Achieve Global Nutrition Security
All CountriesAlison Edwards (Stewardship Index for Specialty Cr...

Increased intake of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is recommended for most populations across the globe. However, the current state of global and regional food systems is such that F&V availability, the production required to sustain them, and consumer...

Research and Development
Soil Health Constraints Contributing to Maize (Zea Mays L.) Yield Gap in Upper Tana Watershed of Murang’a County, Kenya
KenyaErmias Aynekulua, *, Robin Chachaa , Ruth Sitienei...

Small-scale farming in sub Saharan Africa is central to food security. However, subsistence farming is not yet meeting its role in reducing the current yield gaps and ensuring food security. Current agronomic recommendations are too broad to be use...

Research and Development
Smallholder Mechanization Induced by Yield-Enhancing Biological Technologies: Evidence From Nepal and Ghana
All CountriesHiroyuki Takehima, Yanyan Liu

Recent agricultural transformation in Asia and Africa has witnessed the gradual spread of mechanization in agricultural areas that are still largely made up of smallholder farming. While the literature has often characterized mechanical technologies...