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 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. 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.
Sources of value creation in aggregator platforms for digital services in agriculture – insights from likely users in Kenya
This article examines the underlying structure and prioritizations of value creation sources in aggregator platforms for digital services in agriculture from the perspective of likely users in Kenya.
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.
Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya
This study suggests that rural development strategies need to be based on the actual aspirations of rural youth.
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.
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.