PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
This is the first paper that explores agronomic, environmental and socioeconomic effects together, thereby revealing linkages and trade- offs, some of which have been hitherto unknown.
The study discusses the aspirations and preferences of youth in rural sub-Saharan Africa using a large-scale SMS-based survey data and complements it with an investigation on the causal effects of adolescent aspirations on migration decisions when youth in southwestern Ethiopia.
The PARI annual report 2019 presents the highlights of PARI research conducted in 2019.
With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting options for providing relief to the world’s poor, development organizations are looking to mobile money as a way to disburse aid.
The broad objective of the study was to carry out a brief overview of the national livestock sector and its recent developments, including the evolution of the policy environment and a description of major innovations.
The Conference on Climate Change and Food Security in West Africa was an avenue for junior researchers at the Graduate School on Climate Change Economics under the West African Science…
This study was conducted to identify opportunities for mechanization policies and investments to increase productivity, incomes, and employment opportunities and add value to African produce.
This paper adresses options for the mechanization of smallholder production and processing systems from economic and institutional perspectives as well as roles of the private sector and the state. It further analyzes necessary knowledge and skills to promote mechanization and its effects of mechanization on rural employment.
This study compares different institutional options for mechanization, including state-led procurement and distribution of machinery and private sector activities; assesses opinions and policy beliefs with regard to policy instruments and effects on mechanization, youth and digitalization; assesses the state of skills development for mechanization and; assesses the effects of agricultural mechanization on rural communities.
This report presents a brief assessment of the job creation potential of the agro-processing sector in Ethiopia.
This study compared the energy requirements of farm households in Zambia at three levels of mechanization (hand tools, animal draught power and tractors) to assess the largely neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage.
This policy brief summarizes economic, social and environmental impacts from a private business model that aims to enable “emerging” medium-size farms to provide mechanization services to smallholder farmers in Zambia.