5th September 2019

Doubling Productivity Through Evidence-Informed Approaches

While there are instances where food production has recorded an increase [Abate, et al., 2015] factors that transformed maize productivity in Ethiopia, Africa’s food production has […]
30th May 2019

Addressing Data Gaps in the African Agricultural Transformation Process

Africa’s agricultural sector is the continent’s best bet to achieve sustainable development and a return on investments. The sector is a source of livelihood for over […]
16th May 2019

Security in Numbers: Data’s Role in Ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa

Food security is highly ranked in every government’s development agenda globally. As such, agriculture remains Africa’s undisputed investment in growing inclusive economies for both domestic and […]
22nd March 2019

Strengthening Systems for Data Collection on Women and Youth in Agriculture

In Africa, 80% of agriculture production comes from smallholder farmer, about 50% of which come from rural women (FAO, 2011). However, women continue to face constraints […]
6th September 2018

Access to Data Critical to Smallholder Farmer Access to Inputs

Smallholder farmers in low-income contexts face a variety of challenges while attempting to boost their productivity so as to escape subsistence-level farming and poverty. One of […]
13th November 2017

The African Data Revolution

With 90% of the data in the world today having been created in the last 2 years this, it appears, is the era of data revolution. […]