Financial Services
The Five Essentials of Successful Pitching
All CountriesInclusive Business Action Network
Drupes

This toolkit was developed as a concise guide to support businesses with pitching their business model to investors.

Financial Services
What Makes a Business of Interest to an Impact Investor?
All CountriesImpact Capital Africa, Inclusive Business Action N...
Drupes

This factsheet explains what makes an inclusive business company of interest to impact investor

Others
Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Practices: From Incentives to Adoption and Outcomes
NigeriaValeria Piñeiro, Joaquín Arias, Pablo Elverdin, An...
All

Sustainable agricultural practices enable more efficient use of natural resources, mitigate the impact of agriculture on the environment, and strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change and climate variability. Because these practices usuall...

Nutrition
Socio-Economic Drivers of Food Security Among Rural Households in Nigeria: Evidence From Smallholder Maize Farmers
NigeriaADEBAYO OGUNNIYI, SAMUEL OPEYEMI OMOTOSO, KABIR KA...
Grains

Issues relating to food availability, accessibility/affordability, and food utilization remain paramount among different stakeholders such as policymakers and academics. Using data from 250 maize farming households in Nigeria, the study used Foster–G...

Climate Change
The Crucial Role of Domestic and International Market-Mediated Adaptation to Climate Change
All CountriesCHRISTOPHE GOUEL AND DAVID LABORDE DEBUCQUET
Others

Climate change effects on agricultural yields will be uneven over the world. A few countries, mostly in high latitudes, may experience gains, while most will see average yield decrease. This paper aims to quantify the role of market-mediated adjustme...

Others
Variability in Agricultural Productivity and Rural Household Consumption Inequality: Evidence From Nigeria and Uganda
UgandaMULUBRHAN AMARE, SHIFERAW BEKELE, HIROYUKI TAKESHI...
All

This paper uses multiple rounds of panel data to assess the distributional implications of the variability in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. It uses both a conventional decomposition and a regression-based inequality decomposition a...

Policy and Advocacy
Policy Atlas on Food and Nutrition Security and Resilience: Kenya
KenyaWIM MARIVOET, JOHN M. ULIMWENGU AND LEYSA MATY SAL...
All

This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) pro...

Policy and Advocacy
Policy Atlas on Food and Nutrition Security: Ghana
GhanaWIM MARIVOET, JOHN M. ULIMWENGU AND LEYSA MATY SAL...
All

This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) pro...

Policy and Advocacy
Policy Atlas on Food and Nutrition Security: Rwanda
RwandaWIM MARIVOET, JOHN M. ULIMWENGU AND LEYSA MATY SAL...
Others

This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) pro...

Mechanization
Evaluating Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Estimates for Hydrological Applications in Data-Scarce Regions: A Case in Ethiopia
EthiopiaYIHUN T. DILE, ESSAYAS K. AYANA, ABEYOU W. WORQLUL...
Others

Water resource development opens up opportunities for improving smallholder farmer livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa; however, implementation of water resource interventions to ensure sustainability hinges on the availability of sufficient quantity a...

Others
From Bad to Worse: Poverty Impacts of Food Availability Responses to Weather Shocks
ZambiaJAWOO KOO, ABDULLAH MAMUN AND WILL MARTIN
All

Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, and t...

Marketing and Trade
The Relative Commercial Orientation of Smallholder Farmers in Nigeria: Household and Crop value- Chain Analyses
NigeriaTODD BENSON, MULUBRHAN AMARE AND ADEBAYO OGUNNIYI
All

smallholder farming households in Nigeria results in greater incomes for their households, which, in turn, can drive an expansion in local nonfarm employment opportunities and raise incomes across rural communities. Appropriately targeting agricultur...