Doctoral dissertation: Women’s empowerment key to improved farming efficiency in Africa

Innovation capacity and empowerment of women are crucial for enabling small-scale farmers in Africa to meet global challenges, according to a doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Helsinki. Climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth are major threats to food security in Africa. Most of the food consumed in Africa is grown by small-scale farmers. However, farming efficiency is not even close to what it could be. “This is …

Value chain training at University of Makerere made use of the data collected in FoodAfrica

A key aspect of FoodAfrica has been capacity building at different levels. This has meant inviting different stakeholders in different roles to take part in various types of capacity building activities, from farmer trainings to advanced PhD work. Lately, also the data itself collected in FoodAfrica has raised a lot of interest. Students at the University of Makerere in Uganda were trained by FoodAfrica researchers on value chain and market …