-- OR --
Share Data

Login to start contributing to the African Food Changemakers hub by uploading contents

Agri-Food News and Media
Rwanda’s Agrifood System - Structure And Drivers Of Transformation
All CountriesXINSHEN DIAO, MIA ELLIS, SERGE MUGABO, KARL PAUW,...

This paper assesses the structure of Rwanda’s current and evolving agrifood system and its contribution to national development. The paper reiterates the point that Rwanda’s agrifood system stretches well beyond primary agriculture and creates jobs a...

Research and Development
Farming Systems Analysis In Support Of User-Centred Research And Innovation
All CountriesCAMILA BONILLA CEDREZ, MARK CAULFIELD, KATRIEN DES...

Farming Systems Analysis (FSA) is commonly used in CGIAR to assess ‘what works where, and for who?’. The findings are used to prioritize tailored/context-specific interventions and target investments for greater impact. An assessment of seven new CGI...

Agri-Food News and Media
Scoping Study On Ethiopian Sesame Value Chain
EthiopiaGIRMA T. KASSIE, YONAS WORKU, FANTU NISRANE BACHEW...

The Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is the largest non-profit public agricultural research group globally. Recently, it has restructured itself into One-CGIAR with the intention of integrating its capabilities, know...

Others
Valuing Control Over Income And Time Use - A Field Experiment
RwandaWILLIAM HICKMAN, BERBER KRAMER, JOHANNA MOLLERSTRO...

Agricultural development programs often aim to increase women’s incomes and to enhance their control over family resources by offering new work opportunities, but as an unintended negative consequence, these programs may further increase women’s alre...

Policy and Advocacy
Assessing Investment Priorities For Driving Inclusive Agricultural Transformation
TanzaniaEMERTA ARAGIE, RUI BENFICA, KARL PAUW, JOSÉE RANDR...

This study utilizes a recursive dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated with data for Tanzania to explore the link between agricultural and rural development spending and four development outcomes: economic growth, job creation, poverty reductio...

Agri-Food News and Media
Evaluating The Impacts Of Watershed Rehabilitation And Irrigation Interventions On Vegetation Greenness And Soil Erosion Using Remote Sensing And Biophysical Modelling In Feresmay Watershed
EthiopiaYARED BAYISSA, YIHUN DILE, RAGHAVAN SRINIVASAN, et...

Soil erosion and subsequent land degradation undermine efforts to ensure food security and environmental sustainability in Ethiopia. The government of Ethiopia has implemented extensive soil and water conservation (SWC) programs in severely degraded...

Agri-Food News and Media
Feeding Africa - How Small-Scale Irrigation Can Help Farmers To Change The Game
All CountriesELIZABETH BRYAN AND CLAUDIA RINGLER

Small-scale irrigation can help smallholder farmers to increase agricultural productivity and incomes. It can be scaled quickly and without large public investments. For these reasons, it can contribute more rapidly to the achievement of national agr...

Agri-Food News and Media
Private Sector Promotion Of Climate-Smart Technologies
All CountriesLENIS SAWEDA LIVERPOOL-TASIE, ANDREW DILLON, JEFFR...

Sustainable intensification is predicated on climate-smart agricultural input adoption. We test strategies for promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural inputs in Nigeria with a private sector firm. We disentangle the effects of price disc...

Agri-Food News and Media
Lessons Learnt In Nutrition Education Communication And Advocacy
All CountriesHARVESTPLUS

Introducing biofortified crops as new crops on the market required people to receive the right information as to why they should produce and consume these crops. Nutrition trainings were a platform to disseminate this much needed information. These t...

Agri-Food News and Media
Measuring Changes In The Rwanda’s Agri-Food System
RwandaIFPRI

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
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...

Agri-Food News and Media
Solar-Powered Cold-Storage And Agrifood Market Modernization In Nigeria
NigeriaHIROYUKI TAKESHIMA, FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI, HYACINTH EDE...

his study fills this knowledge gap by providing evidence from the evaluation of recent interventions in northeast Nigeria in which seven small solar-powered cold storages were installed across seven horticulture markets. Combinations of difference-in...

Data
Online Courses
Podcasts
Technology