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Transforming African agricultural markets through digital innovations: What we (do not) know
This policy note synthesizes the key messages and lessons from existing evidence and trends in the development, deployment and scale up of ICT-enabled marketing tools.
Kenya is one of the main producers of tomato within Africa south of the Sahara, with an estimated market value of USD 237 million as of 2012, most of which was produced for the national market (Sibomana et al., 2016).
Post-harvest losses in potato in Nyandarua County
Irish potato is the second most important food crop in Kenya after maize (Kaguongo et al., 2014).
Except for dairy producers, who have benefited from price and income support programs dating back to New Deal legislation from the 1930s, coverage for livestock and livestock products remained largely confined to ad hoc supplemental disaster cover
Conditional cash transfers and high school attainment: Evidence from a large-scale program in the Dominican Republic
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are widely implemented in developing countries but evidence of their medium- and long-term effects on educational achievements is still relatively scarce.
Milk product safety and household food hygiene influence bacterial contamination of infant food in peri-urban Kenya
Background: Milk is a common infant food in peri-urban Kenya that can transmit diarrhea-causing enteric pathogens.
The death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic reached near 6 million by early February 2022, two years into the pandemic.
Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, food value chains have undergone some remarkable adjustments, evolving to meet rapidly changing conditions.
COVID-19 and food inflation scares
Rising food prices during 2021 caused concern worldwide.
In early 2020, Guatemala reacted swiftly to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the course of the pandemic, research on how COVID-19 has affected agricultural production and food value chains has evolved: as coronavirus infection rates rose and fell and governments instituted a range of responses, the research focus shif
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers and international organizations voiced concerns about the resilience of food value chains amid lockdowns and border closures, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (Laborde et
There is substantial concern that global food insecurity is increasing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Return to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia
In many Sub-Saharan countries, farmers cannot meet the growing urban demand for higher quality products, leading to increasing dependency on imports.
The report finds that repurposing a portion of government spending on agriculture each year to develop and disseminate more emission-efficient technologies for crops and livestock could reduce overall emissions from agriculture by more than 40 per
Consumer prices have increased substantially in recent months.
Consumption of microbiologically contaminated food is one of the leading causes of diarrheal diseases. Understanding the source of enteric pathogens in food is important to guide effective interventions.