Mass markets separate farmers by calling from farmers by opportunity
Across Africa, there is no shortage of training courses and capacity building programs for farmers, women, youths, SMEs and economic actors. While all these activities…
Undocumented job descriptions and skills that drive African food systems
Many African countries have not invested in understanding the skill-base comprising traits, talents and passion that drive food systems. Unless existing skills and knowledge are…
Mass markets build farmer confidence and transform behaviour
Once farmers start participating in the market, they no longer remain the same. By talking to other farmers and listening to experiences from other parts…
Formal institutions do not have the data required to build African economies
Formal institutions do not have the data required to build African economies The amount and quality of data required to transform African economies cannot be…
Mass markets offer new grounds for interpreting African economic realities
Mass markets offer new grounds for interpreting African economic realities It is only through working with mass markets that African policy makers and researchers can…
Very few organizations are benefiting from fragmented information
Very few organizations are benefiting from fragmented information Many African farmers and traders live complex economic and financial realities. For such people, fragmented and siloed…
We cannot achieve food systems transformation by ignoring mass markets
African leaders who really care about food systems transformation cannot ignore what is happening in the mass market. Ignoring these markets is ignoring more than…
African countries cannot build a strong African Continental Free Trade Area without investing in data first
How can African countries hope to make the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) work when there are no systems to facilitate trade within countries…
Closing gaps between indigenous knowledge systems and digital solutions
One of the major challenges in Africa’s digital agriculture space is that software developers try to develop digital solutions based on a lot of assumptions.…
Artificial intelligence cannot generate market intelligence on its own
While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being touted as a solution to many data-related challenges, it cannot generate agricultural market intelligence without human involvement. The most…