PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
This brief presents the result of a rapid assessment on how the lockdown measures have affected the performance of the South African food and beverage manufacturing industry and the critical issues that firms face during and post lockdown.
The problem of fertilizer market in SSA is multifaceted and is affected by multiple factors on both demand and supply. In this context, the study focuseds on the factors that affect its supply.
The purpose of the study was to provide guidance to policy makers and private and public investors on promising innovations in Ethiopian livestock value chains and their contexts, which could enable transformation of the livestock sector.
This policy brief presents the concept and findings from case studies with Hello Tractor (Nigeria) and EM3 Agri-Services (India) to illustrate how this can work in developing countries.
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.