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No one size fits all! Lessons from legume–cereal rotations in smallholder farms
May 31, 2017 Editor 0
Smallholder farming households in much of sub-Saharan Africa are distinctly diverse within and across communities. Taking this reality into account when introducing technologies to farmers is therefore a key step, particularly in sustainable intensification under low external nutrients input cropping systems. This is because technologies and/or crop spatial arrangements introduced to farmers in this context […]
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Let’s talk business: Knowledge-sharing helps make Sub-Saharan Africa more competitive
July 8, 2016 Editor 0
The Ease of Doing Business Initiative (EDBI) is helping turn sub-Saharan Africa’s markets into attractive investment destinations. Over the past 15 years, Sub-Saharan African countries have been on a tremendous journey to reform their business environments. The results speak for themselves: In the “Doing Business” 2016 report, Sub-Saharan Africa recorded about 30 percent of […]
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Bio-enhanced Seeds: creating the next generation of seeds
April 23, 2015 Editor 0
Horticulture is one of the sub sectors in Agriculture that has shown great promise as a foreign exchange earner in the region particularly for Ethiopia and Kenya. Kenya is the top exporter of fresh produce and flowers in sub-Saharan Africa with horticulture contributing 36 percent to the agricultural GDP and continues to grow at between […]
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Ecommerce Insights From UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2015
April 16, 2015 Editor Comments Off on Ecommerce Insights From UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2015
Africa remains the region with the lowest penetration of ecommerce. As noted in the UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2015, Africa and the Middle East in 2013 accounted for about 2.2 per cent of global B2C ecommerce. There are few data at the country level, but estimates for the six countries included in table II.9 show […]
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Open Innovation Tackles NCDs in Africa
December 9, 2014 Editor Comments Off on Open Innovation Tackles NCDs in Africa
The Devex Impact website reported that to understand more about Africa’s increasing noncommunicable diseases (NCD) threat, we need to bring together the brightest scientific minds to work as a team rather than struggling alone to find answers. No single country in the region has enough researchers with the appropriate mix of skills required to tackle […]
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Building for Development: Could Infrastructure Draw Unexpected Investors to Africa?
November 17, 2014 Editor 0
Only one out of every 40 dollars of foreign direct investment (FDI) since the 1990s has gone to Sub-Saharan Africa. This is dwarfed by the one out of every eight dollars that went to Latin America and the Caribbean, or the more impressive one out of every four dollars invested in Asian countries. Yet recent […]
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