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The International Open Data Conference is Coming to Africa
The International Open Data Conference (IODC) 2018 came to a close on 29th September, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More than 1,500 participants from 70 countries descended on the Usina del Arte, an early 20th-century electrical power plant-turned-arts venue whose auditoriums and gallery space were home to this year’s 2-day event. Among the participants were […]
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Bringing Open Data to Bear on Gender Inequality in Africa
The worldwide push for gender equality has and continues to gain momentum to bridge existing and emerging gaps that continue to perpetuate inequality. Beyond the moral incentive there exists a huge development incentive for gender equality. In Africa alone, the exclusion and or ineffective participation of women and girls in development processes sets back the […]
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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 these is access to affordable key agricultural inputs (seeds and fertilizer) in a timely fashion. This access, unfortunately, is often the exception rather than the norm which then leads […]
Pan Africanist Voices
Because our agriculture has the lowest productivity in the world, the only way we are going to be able to catch up with productivity is by linking it to agro processing. Not living it alone, but adding value to the chain
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Recent Work
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Rethinking Intra-African Trade Through CAADP Implementation
The dairy industry is an important source of livelihood for the farmers that engage in it. It provides an avenue for income generation for smallholder farmers and contributes to the household asset base through finance and insurance. However, it is the role it could potentially play in intra-African trade and in alleviating hunger and malnutrition […]
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The 5i Framework: Assessing Resilience Building Initiatives in Africa
Resilience building has become a vital part of securing development gains in Africa over the last decade. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction defines resilience as “The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely […]
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