Although formal advertisements might be spreading the impression that fast foods are taking over African food systems, social media channels are showing how future-oriented African…
If developing countries treated farming like other professions, many farmers would have graduated from smallholder farming to large-scale farming in line with growth-oriented changes related…
If owning land and related natural resources was a panacea to development, communities and people who own fertile land would be enjoying better living standards…
The seasonal nature of most African food systems implies there are times when indigenous fruits, tubers, tomatoes and other commodities ripen at once. This presence…
Although many Africans living in rural people still think what comes from the city is superior, on the contrary, demand for indigenous food grown in…
While economic planners in most African countries still associate manufacturing with big corporates rooted in colonial legacies, Micro, Small and Medium (MSMEs) have quietly moved…
Supeficial value addition may not transform indigenous food systems Adding value to indigenous foods has, for decades, focused on general processes like adding salt, adding…
For a very long time, the development sector has used external consultants to gather baseline information before implementing a new project in a new community. …
How informal economies and mass markets fight poverty and destitution If there was no informal sector most Africans would be destitutes. African territorial markets and…
African policy makers may see formalization of the informal sector as a panacea to economic development but what makes informality more attractive has not been…