FoodAfrica trained Ghanaian students on methods to analyse agricultural markets

What is a value chain? How to analyse market data or how to conduct an experiment in agricultural markets? These and many other questions were pondered in a training course offered by FoodAfrica WP6 team. Analysis of agricultural markets is a timely topic. A well-conducted analysis can help stakeholders to make informed decisions. “However, obtaining robust information on how, for instance, market shocks or interventions influence the value chain is …

FoodAfrica researchers and local farmers were brought together in Senegal by Theatre Forum – a participatory method to resolve stakeholders’ problems

In Senegal, the FoodAfrica team has made use of the interactive theatre forum method. It was applied by the FoodAfrica team to address some of the critical water management issues facing irrigated agriculture in the coastal Niayes region of Senegal. The theatre forum method can be used to disseminate the key messages coming from one’s research results while creating opportunities for smallholder farmers to react to research-based findings. It also …