Strategies for Transforming Smallholder Farming in Africa
This book comprises ten chapters that run an exhaustive analysis of all the issues in smallholder agriculture.
PARI Research Outputs
PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
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.
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.
Using smartphone app collected data to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia
This study provides a proof-of-concept that smartphone applications can be used to collect socioeconomic data that are difficult to measure but of high relevance.
From Potentials to Reality: Transforming Africa’s Food Production
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.
African agricultural mechanization: Myths, realities and an emerging research agenda
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.
Investing Sustainably in African Livestock Development: Opportunities and Trade-Offs
The objectives of this report are first to describe the patterns and changing structures of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) livestock sector and secondly to explore innovations that can help to address the complex trade-offs involved in investing in the development of a sustainable livestock sector.
India-Africa Partnership in Trade and Investment: With focus on the Agriculture and Food Sector
This paper looks at historical ties between India and Africa. It identifies trade and investment patterns in recent decadesand describes the collaborations between India and several African countries in the field of agriculture.
PARI Annual Report 2019
The PARI annual report 2019 presents the highlights of PARI research conducted in 2019.
PARI Policy Brief No. 21: The Forgotten Agriculture-Nutrition Link
This study compared the energy requirements of farm households in Zambia at three levels of mechanization (hand tools, animal draught power and tractors) to assess the largely neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage.
PARI Policy Brief No. 20: What are the Effects of Agricultural Mechanization?
This policy brief summarizes economic, social and environmental impacts from a private business model that aims to enable “emerging” medium-size farms to provide mechanization services to smallholder farmers in Zambia.