As regards the analysis, Gabiro Agribusiness Hub Project, which seeks to develop Rwanda’s farming sector, will receive the largest share of the 2020/2021 agriculture budget. This was disclosed during a virtual press conference on disbursement of fu...

This rapid context analysis has been developed in the inception stage of the third phase of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Integrated Country Approach programme (ICA programme) for boosting decent jobs for youth in...

Boserup and Ruthenberg (BR) provided the framework to analyze the impact of population growth and market access on the intensification of farming systems. Prior evidence in Africa is consistent with the framework. Over the past two decades, rapid pop...

The USAID-Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises (KAVES) project’s goal is to increase the productivity and incomes of smallholders and other actors along the value chain, thereby enhancing food security and improving nutrition. The Ministry of A...

The Tanzanian Agriculture Market is segmented by Crop Type (Food Crops / Cereals, Fruits, Vegetables, and Oilseeds/Non-food Crops) and provides insight on its Production, Consumption, Import, and export during the forecast period (2020-2025). The...

Smallholder agriculture continues to play a key role in African agriculture. This paper investigates trends, challenges and opportunities of this sub-sector in East Africa through case studies of Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania. In these agr...

The amount of food lost each year due to post-harvest loss (PHL) is enough to feed the total number of undernourished people globally. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone, which unfortunately is home to over 230 million people suffering from chronic...

Agriculture is essential to the economies of East African countries. Climate change, with its effects on temperature and precipitation, threatens this important economic activity. How to foster agricultural development and food security in East Af...

Food production is critical in East Africa, where over 80% of exports depend on agriculture. The future holds both opportunities, with global food demand expected to increase by up to 98% by 2050, and risk, with increasing use of robotics, automation...

Africa has enormous potential, not only to feed itself and eliminate hunger and food insecurity but also to be a major player in global food markets. This potential lies in its land, water, and oceans, in its men and women, in its knowledge, and h...

Agriculture holds the key to broad-based economic growth, poverty reduction and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This is due to the importance of the sector for SSA economies, the extent of rural poverty and the dependence of 50 million...

The rapid expansion of agri‐food exports from low‐ and middle‐income countries and the contribution of global value chains to rural development is well‐documented in the literature. Also studies on modernization of domestic food value chains in th...