Bankers expect smallholder farmers to repay loans at a particular interest. For economists, African smallholder farmers are supposed to master return on investment. Nutritionists expect…
‘Best practice’ is not even a mouthful but what it means in practice remains unclear to many people who use the phrase. In African agriculture,…
Across Africa, there is no shortage of training courses and capacity building programs for farmers, women, youths, SMEs and economic actors. While all these activities…
Many African countries have not invested in understanding the skill-base comprising traits, talents and passion that drive food systems. Unless existing skills and knowledge are…
Once farmers start participating in the market, they no longer remain the same. By talking to other farmers and listening to experiences from other parts…
Formal institutions do not have the data required to build African economies The amount and quality of data required to transform African economies cannot be…
Mass markets offer new grounds for interpreting African economic realities It is only through working with mass markets that African policy makers and researchers can…
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…
African leaders who really care about food systems transformation cannot ignore what is happening in the mass market. Ignoring these markets is ignoring more than…
How can African countries hope to make the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) work when there are no systems to facilitate trade within countries…
One of the major challenges in Africa’s digital agriculture space is that software developers try to develop digital solutions based on a lot of assumptions.…
While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being touted as a solution to many data-related challenges, it cannot generate agricultural market intelligence without human involvement. The most…