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Agriculture in Africa – Telling Facts from Myths
One third of Africa’s food goes lost after it is harvested. Women’s labor contribution in African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60 to 80 percent. Labor is 2 to 4 times more...
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Killing the Zombie Statistic: Women Contribute 60-80 Percent of Labor in...
How much of the work do women contribute to agriculture in Africa? Over the past decades, “60-80 percent” is the range that has regularly popped up--in celebrity speeches, policy conferences and...
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Counting Africa’s Rural Entrepreneurs
In recent years there has been a growing interest in small rural business development and entrepreneurship as conduits for accelerating job opportunities – for the youth and for poverty reduction. This...
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Domestic factors drive maize price volatility in Burkina Faso, not external ones
Food price volatility remains a pressing challenge for many African countries (FAO, IMF, and UNCTAD, 2011). The vast majority of Africa’s population still derives a substantial share of their income...
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Inorganic fertilizer use in Africa: Not too low but not too profitable --...
Inorganic fertilizer use is claimed to be low in sub-Saharan Africa, but it is unclear whether using higher rates of fertilizer would be profitable. My coauthors and I sought to explore the effect of...
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Africa’s Hidden Underemployment Sink
Labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has been garnering attention recently. Development economists focus on labor productivity because it tends to be strongly associated with overall well-being...
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