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Why the elite should stop imposing their expectations on smallholder farmers
Bankers expect smallholder farmers to repay loans at a particular interest. For economists, African smallholder farmers are supposed to master…
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How to move from ordinary to best agricultural practices
‘Best practice’ is not even a mouthful but what it means in practice remains unclear to many people who use…
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Market information and knowledge as therapy
When farmers who have spent years looking for satisfactory answers to their challenges finally get a solution, such a moment…
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Slow knowledge and fast knowledge in African Agriculture
While African countries neglect their informal economies in planning and policy development, the informal sector provides several avenues of looking…
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Making sense of differences between evidence and experience
While there is an increase in emphasis on evidence-based policy, evidence-based medicine and evidence-based this and that, people’s collective experiences…
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Using evidence to articulate grassroots concerns and opportunities
If concerns and opportunities of people living at the grassroots of developing countries are to be fully understood, evidence gathering…
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Using feedback to stabilize growth and expand opportunities
For every US$500 million that has goes into agricultural production in Africa, another US$500 million is not injected into the…
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Recognizing the role of feminine traits in local economies
Another way of increasing the relevance of International Women’s Day which is celebrated on the 8th of March every year…
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Making sense of the nature of jobs in African agriculture and SMEs
The extent to which farming and non-farming activities in developing countries can create decent employment remains a fertile ground for…
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People’s food markets as sources of multiple knowledges
One of the benefits of continuously observing and learning from informal African food markets is an opportunity to update knowledge…
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Carving and sustaining economic identities in evolving agricultural ecosystems
While billions of dollars have gone into African agriculture, smallholder farmers and other food producers are yet to be characterized…
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Revisiting and reconciling differences between literacy and knowledge
It is now known that African graduates are not able to exploit abundant natural resources because the academic education system…
