Focus Area
Value Chain
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...