Farm robots: ecological utopia or dystopia?
Societal discussions and policy action are needed to harness the potential of robots to serve people and the planet.
PARI Research Outputs
PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
PARI Policy Brief No. 30: Comparing African Countries and Indian States
This policy brief assesses how African countries and Indian states have transformed their food and agriculture sectors to inform future strategic directions in food system strategies.
Of milk and mobiles: Assessing the potential of cellphone applications to reduce cattle milk yield gaps in Africa using a case study
This study assesses the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) applications to close milk yield gaps among small- and medium scale dairy cattle farmers in Africa.
Climate Change and Food Security in West Africa
This publication contains a compendium of papers presented at the conference on climate change and food security in West Africa.
PARI Policy Brief No. 29: Towards a Digital One-Stop-Shop for African Producers?
This policy brief offers insights on how digital agricultural platform companies in Africa are coping with strategic challenges related to their business models.
Determinants of uptake and strategies to improve agricultural insurance in Africa: a review
This review synthesises broad recent literature on why insurance take-up has remained low and what strategies might be employed to spur its take-up among farmers and pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa.
PARI Annual Report 2020
The PARI annual report 2020 presents the highlights of PARI research conducted in 2020.
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.