PARI Annual Report 2017
PARI Interim Report 2017
PARI Research Outputs
PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
Smartphone App: Food-Recommender
The Food-Recommender is an android-based application which offers food recommendations based on an analysis of anthropometrics and food intake.
How does inter-annual variability of attainable yield affect the magnitude of yield gaps for wheat and maize?
The study evaluated the importance of inter-annual attainable yield variability for the magnitude of the yield gap by utilizing data for wheat and maize at ten sites representing some major food production systems and a large range of climate and soil conditions across the world.
PARI Poster: Recognizing Farmer Innovators in Africa
PARI Poster presenting various African innovators
Innovation Platform Agribusiness Portal (IPAbP)
The IPAbP aims at aggregating information about all agricultural innovation platforms in Africa to foster linkages with other agricultural innovation organizations, donors and development partners.
PARI Policy Brief No. 3: Sustainable Intensification Strategies for the Rural Poor
This policy brief discusses how to match innovations with human and ecological potential within and outside the agriculture sector
The ReSAKSS Country eAtlases
The eAtlas offer access to high quality and highly disaggregated data on agricultural, socio-economic, and bio-physical indicators in Africa.
Solar Milk Cooling with Insulated Milk Cans
The University of Hohenheim developed a milk cooling solution that can help small- and medium-sized dairy farms to improve the storage, transportation, and hygiene of their produced milk.
Smartphone App: TimeTracker
Developed by the University of Hohenheim, TimeTracker is a simple, picture-base smartphone app which allows respondents in household surveys to record daily activities themselves.
Climate and management interaction cause diverse crop phenology trends
The article evaluates the effects of climate and management on crop phenology by using observations for winter rapeseed and winter rye obtained in Germany for the period 1960–2013.
Harvesting Solar Power in India
This paper delves into the feasibility of simultaneously making progress towards India's targets of significantly scaling solar power capacities and doubling farmers' incomes.
Country Innovation Studies
The studies provide an overview of the status of agricultural innovations, innovation platforms and innovation investment in 12 African countries.