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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
โBest practiceโ is not even a mouthful but what it means in practice remains unclear to many people who use…
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Money, resilience, sustainability and growth is in mastering the details
Successful transition from primary production to industrialization requires serious attention to detail. Otherwise, it will be difficult for African countries…
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Why agricultural inputs suppliers should rethink their business models๏ฟผ
For decades, companies that sell seed, fertilizer, chemicals and other inputs have been more interested in increasing their sales volumes…
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Informality is an invitation for African universities and banks to do something with their knowledge
African universities and financial institutions havenโt done much to correct the negative perception and discourse about African mass markets and…
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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…
