Agricultural technologies shown to be highly effective in research trials often have a lower impact when utilized by smallholder farmers. Both heterogeneous returns and suboptimal application are believed to play a role in this efficacy gap. Source: IFPRI Africa Regional Office (AFR)
Feed the microbes
Agribusinesses should rethink their mission to be one of feeding microbes as well as people.
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Immediate impacts of COVID-19 on the aquaculture value chain in Ghana
Ghana’s aquaculture sector is among the recent success stories of fast-growing agricultural value chains in Africa south of the Sahara. The sector has also shown its vulnerability, with the infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus spreading through tilapia farms in Lake Volta in late 2018. The global COVID-19 human pandemic reached Ghana in early 2020, […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Policy Note 40: Promoting Smallholder Participation in Value Chains for Pulses in Malawi
In this Policy Note, Todd Benson examines both household and spatial factors that may drive participation by smallholder farming households in commercial value chains for pulses, legume crops that are primarily harvested for their dry seed. Here the fo... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
