Mali – Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development
A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security.
PARI Research Outputs
PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
Ethiopia – Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development
A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security.
Burkina Faso – Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development
A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security.
Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya
This study suggests that rural development strategies need to be based on the actual aspirations of rural youth.
Strategies for Transforming Smallholder Farming in Africa
This book comprises ten chapters that run an exhaustive analysis of all the issues in smallholder agriculture.
Between pandemics and famines: Towards nutrition-sensitive lockdowns during Covid-19 and beyond
This paper highlights the need to design nutrition-sensitive lockdown strategies, which are effective from an epidemiological perspective but minimize trade-offs with food and nutrition security.
‘We would rather die from Covid-19 than from hunger´ – Exploring lockdown stringencies in five African countries
This paper explores how five African countries maneuvered around the potentially large tradeoffs between public health and food security when designing their policy responses to the first wave of COVID-19.
Perceived effects of farm tractors in four African countries, highlighted by participatory impact diagrams
This paper explores perceived agronomic, environmental, and socioeconomic effects of farm mechanization, thereby revealing linkages and trade-offs.
Meta-analysis of the effects of on-farm management strategies on milk yields of dairy cattle on smallholder farms in the Tropics
This study identifies on-farm dairy management strategies employed by East African smallholders and summarizes existing literature to quantify the expected milk yield changes.
Indian farm wages: Trends, growth drivers and linkages with food prices
This study looks at trends in Indian farm wages, analyses their linkage with food prices, and identifies factors which drove their growth in real terms.
Quantification and benefits of reducing post-harvest losses: Evidence for vegetables in Senegal
This study examines on-farm post-harvest losses (PHL) for three vegetable crops (onion, tomato, and pimento) in Senegal and the potential economic benefits associated with reducing PHL for these three vegetables.
Using smartphone app collected data to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia
This study provides a proof-of-concept that smartphone applications can be used to collect socioeconomic data that are difficult to measure but of high relevance.