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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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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…
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The hidden cost of the time lag between marketing and consumption of commodities
One of the most misunderstood aspects of agricultural value chains in most developing countries is the time lag between marketing…
