PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
This paper explores why farmers engage in rural off-farm activities and related effects on food shortage, relative deprivation and dietary diversity.
Societal discussions and policy action are needed to harness the potential of robots to serve people and the planet.
This study examines the nexus among production diversity, market participation, and consumption diversity in smallholder households. It identifies the main factors that influence smallholder farm households’ decision to diversify production and evaluates the effect of production diversity and market participation on consumption diversity.
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.
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.
This study assesses the impact of Covid-19 containment measures on sales and emploment in the African agroprocessing sector.
This policy brief offers insights on how digital agricultural platform companies in Africa are coping with strategic challenges related to their business models.
This policy brief discusses how Covid-19 containment measures have affected the performance of the food and beverage manufacturing industry in Africa.
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.
The PARI annual report 2020 presents the highlights of PARI research conducted in 2020.
This paper synthesizes a set of national case studies at the nexus of land degradation, climate change and energy in the Sahel.
A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security.