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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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Making sense of differences between communicating evidence and facilitating its use
Besides promoting linear ways of communicating information, most efforts by policy makers and development agencies in Africa continue to confuse…
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Key elements of market – informed agribusiness Models
Like all businesses, agribusinesses should be built around a product/service and a niche market. Ideally, more products and services spawn…
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If acronyms were a solution, poverty would be history in many African communities
Almost all development interventions into Africa are framed into acronyms. eMKambo will not give examples because there are far too…
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Domestic animals as sources of Knowledge and Social Intelligence
In African agrarian communities where livestock are part of people’s livelihoods, farmers have forged symbiotic relationships with their cattle, goats,…
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How informal economies harness and institutionalize customer experience
While a supermarket chain can have a customer care department responsible for answering queries and harvesting feedback from diverse customers,…
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Are ICTs improving African agriculture or just smearing digital ‘lipstick’?
While ICTs have been part of African agriculture and rural communities for many years, benefits associated with these technologies have…
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Formulae for valuating intangible assets long overdue in Africa
Capitalism may be accused of misleading many African countries into limiting the valuation of their resources to tangible assets such…
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How the informal economy tackles the middle class trap
In African countries where agriculture is a major socio-economic activity, policy makers and development agencies seem determined to move economic…
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How African Agriculture is under-rated due to narrow notions of evidence
When economists and policy makers in developing countries talk about evidence, in most cases they mean numbers or statistics. For…
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How African Agriculture expresses differences between Men and Women
Millions of dollars have gone into promoting gender equality in many developing countries. More millions continue to be poured into…
