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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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Building world class market infrastructure or globalizing African products
Shopping malls are mushrooming across Africa but African policy makers are not ensuring that local products dominate those shopping malls.…
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The value of enhancing knowledge flows between formal and informal economies
In most African countries, the formal education system has not succeeded in creating conditions for knowledge to flow between different…
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Using agroecology markets to inform diet analyses and community-led nutrition
Due to the colonial legacy that has looked down upon indigenous food for decades, diet and nutrition analyses in most…
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How agroecology is quietly formulating food ingredients of the future
Although formal advertisements might be spreading the impression that fast foods are taking over African food systems, social media channels…
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The value of bringing dignity and respect back to the farming profession
If developing countries treated farming like other professions, many farmers would have graduated from smallholder farming to large-scale farming in…
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When and why capacity to produce is more important than land ownership
If owning land and related natural resources was a panacea to development, communities and people who own fertile land would…
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Circumstances under which flexible bridging finance makes all the difference
The seasonal nature of most African food systems implies there are times when indigenous fruits, tubers, tomatoes and other commodities…
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Increasing potential for promoting indigenous food through supply chains
Although many Africans living in rural people still think what comes from the city is superior, on the contrary, demand…
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It is time to recognize how African MSMEs are decolonizing Manufacturing
While economic planners in most African countries still associate manufacturing with big corporates rooted in colonial legacies, Micro, Small and…
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Superficial value addition may not transform indigenous food systems
Supeficial value addition may not transform indigenous food systems Adding value to indigenous foods has, for decades, focused on general…
