Month: July 2018

The merits of an effective marketplace for agricultural evidence

Posted on by eMKambo

Discovering and maintaining agricultural commodities markets is not enough for developing countries. They have to build a culture of synthesizing and sharing evidence in real-time. Absence of a culture of synthesizing information and knowledge from diverse sources remains a big challenge among farmers, economic actors, consumers and policy makers in the majority of developing countries. Read more about The merits of an effective marketplace for agricultural evidence[…]

Informal food markets as platforms for sharing aspirations and frustrations

Posted on by eMKambo

An under-appreciated advantage of African informal food markets is how they allow farmers, traders, consumers and other actors to emotionally participate in business and change processes through sharing their aspirations and frustrations. The same cannot happen in formal markets like supermarkets and formal manufacturing industries where farmers just deliver commodities and wait to be paid Read more about Informal food markets as platforms for sharing aspirations and frustrations[…]

African informal food markets as better expressions of democracy

Posted on by eMKambo

African countries are full of human rights interventions that focus mostly on partisan political rights ignoring the rights of local people to produce their own diverse foods in ways they want.  Human rights should not just be enabling local people to access donated food. Evidence from African informal food markets show the extent to which Read more about African informal food markets as better expressions of democracy[…]