Climate Change
The effect of climate change adaptation strategies on bean yield in central and northern Uganda
UgandaBenard Onzima, Enid Katungi, & Jackline Bonabana-W...
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This paper analyses the impact of adaptation to climate change on bean productivity on a micro-scale using instrumental variable techniques in a two-stage econometric model, using data collected from farming households in northern and central Uganda....

Agribusiness SMEs
Seasonality, food prices and dietary choices of vulnerable households: A case study of nutritional resilience in Tanzania
TanzaniaAchilana Mtingele & Deirdre O’Connor
Processed Foods

This study examines how food prices and related seasonality factors affect the dietary choices of low-income farm households in rural Tanzania. The Kishapu and Mvomero districts were selected based on contrasting rainfall patterns, farming practices...

Agribusiness SMEs
Remoteness and its impact on productivity growth among Malawi’s smallholder household farmers: A Malmquist and tobit regression approach
MalawiEfrem Chilima, Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri, Kennedy...

This study examines the impact of remoteness on productivity growth among Malawian smallholder farmers. Utilising data from four rounds of the Integrated Household Survey Panel (2010–2019), a combined Malmquist data envelopment analysis and Tobit reg...

Trade Facilitation and Agro-commodity Exchange
An analysis of market viability of value-added indigenous products: A case study of Strychnos cocculoide(Maguni) in Namibia
NamibiaD.N. Nakandjibi K.M. Kalundu P. Hiwilepo Van Hal S...

Amid changing climates, interest in indigenous goods grows as the world strives to combat poverty, hunger, and rural challenges. This study examines the market potential of value- added indigenous products (Strychnos Cocculoide - Maguni) for commerc...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Digital skill needs of agricultural extension personnel for communication of climate change adaptation in Niger Delta, Nigeria
NigeriaC.M. Abuta O.M. Adesope B.I. Isife C.C. Ifeanyi-ob...
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This study analyzed the digital skill needs of agricultural extension personnel for effective communication of climate change adaptation in Niger Delta, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 72 respondents from three States (Ab...

Agribusiness SMEs
Perspectives on the integration of agri-entrepreneurship in tertiary agricultural education in Africa: insights from the AgriENGAGE project
All CountriesNgonidzashe Chirinda Bisan Abdulkader Bisan Abdulk...
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The underperformance of agricultural education systems in Africa is evident through various indicators such as increased unemployment among recent agricultural graduates, inefficiencies in agricultural product value chains, and a decline in enrollmen...

On-Farm Production (crops, livestock)
Genetic variations of rice yellow mottle virus disease on selected rice (Oryza sativa L) genotypes and their effects on yield and yield-related traits
GhanaB. Amadu M.D. Asante A. Oppong I. Tawiah D.D. Game...

Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is one of the most important disease affecting rice production in Africa. This research aimed to estimate the effect of RYMV disease on some yield-related traits in Korean rice germplasm recently introduced into Ghana...

Food Safety
Effect of food-based nutrition intervention on management of non-communicable diseases among people living with HIV in Busia County Hospital, Kenya
NigeriaR Akelola, E Wamukoya, and J Situma
Processed Foods

Good nutrition optimizes benefits of ART (Antiretroviral therapy) and increases treatment adherence, both prolongs lives of PLHIV (NASCOP, 2014), without proper care and management it exposes them to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Key objective; t...

Food Fortification
The Role of Agricultural Technology in Food and Nutritional Security in Africa
All CountriesMoctar Toure and Mohamood Noor
Processed Foods

Agriculture, the most important industry in Africa, has not provided adequate food security and economic well-being for the continent's population. Agricultural production per capita and total exports declined since the 1970s, while population and ur...

Food Fortification
Leveraging Food Security with Food Aid: The Role of Applied Policy Research
All CountriesLawrence Haddad
Processed Foods

The paper considers that food aid must not only contribute directly to food security; it must be used, wherever possible, to contribute to development. Food aid has now become a scarce resource; it must therefore be used to make a bigger impact on fo...

Trade
Trade in Food and Food Products in Africa
All CountriesVictoria Sekitoleko
Processed Foods

The sub-Saharan African Region, unlike other developing regions, has made little progress in the past 20-30 years towards improving its food security situation. Indeed, in terms of average aggregate per caput availability of food, Sub-Saharan Africa...

Agribusiness SMEs
Positioning African Agriculture for Food for the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century
All CountriesThomas R. Odhiambo
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The paper traces the historical emergence of subsistence farming as stemming from the colonial period when a more commercial agriculture was replaced by an export-oriented agricultural trade in introduced crops, such as coffee and tea, whose producti...