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…
If there were no territorial markets many food ingredients and related recipes would have disappeared. Besides keeping rural and urban areas connected through food, African…
While infrastructure like road highways and irrigation systems continue to receive much attention, funding and media coverage, it has taken long for most intended beneficiaries…
Many rural communities in low income countries are fed up with the predatory nature of external development initiatives. According to the WordWeb dictionary, a predatory…
Hundreds of mobile applications and technology platforms are launched in Africa almost every day, thanks to the promise of digital-fueled progress. Unfortunately most of the…
In spite of millions of dollars that have gone into market linkage initiatives in developing countries over the past few years, farmers still struggle to…
It is not only revenue streams that tend to be seasonal for farmers in developing countries. The demand and use of knowledge also follow seasonal…
Narrowing the gap between formal and informal economies remains a big challenge for many African countries. Instead of increasing interdependence between the two economies, in…
While monoculture is mostly understood as the cultivation of a single crop on a farm, area or country, the other half of its definition is…
Although many people associate commerce with modernization, it is as old as the hills. To the extent, commerce refers to the exchange of goods and…