PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
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.
The PARI annual report 2020 presents the highlights of PARI research conducted in 2020.
This paper synthesizes a set of national case studies at the nexus of land degradation, climate change and energy in the Sahel.
A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security.
This book comprises ten chapters that run an exhaustive analysis of all the issues in smallholder agriculture.
This paper explores perceived agronomic, environmental, and socioeconomic effects of farm mechanization, thereby revealing linkages and trade-offs.
This study identifies on-farm dairy management strategies employed by East African smallholders and summarizes existing literature to quantify the expected milk yield changes.
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 Nigerian food and beverage manufacturing industry and what measure companies need to support them during the pandemic.