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.
2020T. Daum, Y. P. Adegbola, G. Kamau, A. O. Kergna, C. Daudu, R. C. Zossou, G. F. Crinot, P. Houssou, L. Mose, Y. Ndirpaya, A. A. Wahab, O. Kirui, F. A. Oluwole
This paper explores perceived agronomic, environmental, and socioeconomic effects of farm mechanization, thereby revealing linkages and trade-offs.
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.
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.
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.
This brief presents the result of a rapid assessment on how the containment measures have affected the performance of the Kenyan food and beverage manufacturing industry and what measure companies need to support them during the pandemic.
2020T. Daum, Y. P. Adegbola, G. Kamau, A. O. Kergna, C. Daudu, R. C. Zossou, G. F. Crinot, P. Houssou, L. Mose, Yarama Ndirpaya, A. A. Wahab, Oliver Kirui, Fatunbi A. Oluwole
This is the first paper that explores agronomic, environmental and socioeconomic effects together, thereby revealing linkages and trade- offs, some of which have been hitherto unknown.
2020L. Mose, G. Kamau, W. Mulinge, F. Makini, S. Makokha, E. Nyambati, B. Salasya, E. Thuranira
The broad objective of the study was to carry out a brief overview of the national livestock sector and its recent developments, including the evolution of the policy environment and a description of major innovations.