Impact of COVID-19 on Africa’s Food and Beverage Manufacturing Companies
This study assesses the impact of Covid-19 containment measures on sales and emploment in the African agroprocessing sector.
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. 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.
PARI Policy Brief No. 28: Resilience of Africa’s Food and Beverage Manufacturing Sector – Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic
This policy brief discusses how Covid-19 containment measures have affected the performance of the food and beverage manufacturing industry in Africa.
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.
Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development in the Sahel
This paper synthesizes a set of national case studies at the nexus of land degradation, climate change and energy in the Sahel.
Nigeria – Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development
A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security.
Strategies for Transforming Smallholder Farming in Africa
This book comprises ten chapters that run an exhaustive analysis of all the issues in smallholder agriculture.
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.
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.