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Ideas

Topic: Agricultural Development

Project

Food security in sub-Saharan Africa from the production, human and environmental safety standpoints

Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now highly dependent on food imports.

Richard Sikora Richard Sikora

Project

Population, Land, Food: Malthus and Africa

A study of how Malthus relates to understanding, and resolving, the food-land-population predicaments of sub-Saharan Africa.

Publication

Generational Renewal of and Support for Agricultural Businesses to Achieve Vision 2030 in Namibia—A Focus on Social Protection

Amadhila, Elina M. 2025. Generational Renewal of and Support for Agricultural Businesses to Achieve Vision 2030 in Namibia—A Focus on Social...

Elina Amadhila Elina Amadhila

Project

Land Reform and Rural Production in South Africa

The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture (2019) argued that ‘land reform must be oriented around growing the agricultural sector to foster economic development, and not purely be an endeavour to transfer land’.

William Beinart William Beinart

Project

Developing a complexity science capable of solving practical, important, and urgent problems

The process of transforming agriculture in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is, especially for policymakers and decisionmakers, highly complex.

Mario Giampietro Mario Giampietro Aloisius Louie Aloisius Louie Richard Sikora Richard Sikora Ansel Renner Ansel Renner

Publication

Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa: Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes

Sikora, Richard A., Eugene R. Terry, Paul L.G. Vlek and Joyce Chitja. (Eds.). 2020. Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa: Constraints...

Joyce Chitja Joyce Chitja Richard Sikora Richard Sikora Eugene Terry Eugene Terry Paul Vlek Paul Vlek

Project

Local soil knowledge: a tool for sustainable agricultural systems in Madagascar

Local soil knowledge is an important source of information when designing sustainable agricultural strategies.

Solofo Nasandratra Ravonjiarison Solofo Nasandratra Ravonjiarison

Publication

Limits to biofortification: farmer perspectives on a vitamin A enriched Banana in Uganda

Schnurr, Matthew. A., Lincoln Addison and Sarah Mujabi-Mujuzi. 2018. Limits to biofortification: farmer perspectives on a vitamin A enriched...

Matthew Schnurr Matthew Schnurr