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.
2021C.A. Bateki, T. Daum, A. Salvatierra-Rojas, J. Müller, R. Birner, U. Dickhoefer
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 policy brief offers insights on how digital agricultural platform companies in Africa are coping with strategic challenges related to their business models.
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.
2020T. Daum, R. Birner, K. Biesalski, N. Blaschke, C. Bosch, D. Güttler, J. Heni, J. Kariuki, R. Katusiime, A. Seidel, Z. N. Senon, G. Woode
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.
2020R. Birner, N. Blaschke, C. Bosch, T. Daum, S. Graf, D. Güttler, J. Heni, J. Kariuki, R. Katusiime, A. Seidel, Z. N. Senon, G. Woode
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.
2020C. Bateki, S. van Dijk, A. Wilkes, U. Dickhoefer, R. White
This study identifies on-farm dairy management strategies employed by East African smallholders and summarizes existing literature to quantify the expected milk yield changes.
2020H. Baumüller, J. von Braun, A. Admassie, O. Badiane, E. Baraké, J. Börner, I. Bozic, B. Chichaibelu, J. Collins, T. Daum, T. Gatiso, N. Gerber, T. Getahun, K. Glatzel, S. Hendriks, O. Kirui, L. Kornher, Z. Kubik, E. Lüdeling, A. Mirzabaev, P.G. Ndiaye, T. Sakketa, M. Shah, G. Tadesse, J. Walakira
This study aims to identify how Africa may transform its potentials into realities and actually secure its supply of food for affordable and healthy diets from the sustainable use of resources.
This paper presents a fact check on nine propositions regarding mechanization. Which ones are true? Which ones are false? To answer these questions, the study uses most of the recent literature on mechanization, thereby also providing a review of the current literature on agricultural mechanization in Africa.