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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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Global business principles – local nuances
Somebody said a Chinese student who goes to study business in the West will return home and do business the…
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Cultivating the power of real-time awareness
As agricultural value chains in developing countries become over-crowded and hyper-competitive, real-time awareness has never been so important. While digital…
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Empowering communities to evaluate their knowledge
eMKambo is increasingly meeting rural communities that have been schooled into valuing tangible assets like dams and tractors at the…
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How ecosystems are replacing value chains in African food systems
Instead on choosing a few value chains in which to specialize, some agribusinesses in developing countries are being compelled to…
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The role of data in accelerating agricultural transformation
The capacity of data to accelerate agricultural transformation in developing countries is no longer questionable. However, a remaining challenge is…
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The curse of forgetting useful information and knowledge
eMKambo recently heard a story of how a veterinary doctor surprised livestock farmers when he told them he did not…
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Market information and knowledge as therapy
When farmers who have spent years looking for satisfactory answers to their challenges finally get a solution, such a moment…
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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…
