Many African countries are considering mainstreaming artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) as a catalyst for inclusive growth. ASM has been touted as having the potential to improve rural livelihoods, with greater distributional benefits to mining communities than those derived from...
This study provides a comparative analysis of natural resource sector development in eight African countries. The study looks at national policies and strategies together with legislation to encourage local content and value addition. It also looks at the institutional frameworks...
This study assesses how African countries mobilize, allocate and manage external resource inflows, as well as how they manage relationships with funders—traditional and non-traditional, emerging state and non-state actors.
The paper discusses the current state of agricultural mechanization in Africa and its potential contribution to agricultural and broader economic transformation. It reviews the factors likely to influence farmer demand for mechanization in Africa and details different existing and potential...
Policymakers and development partners are keen to find interventions that are effective in improving smallholder productivity and raising the income and resilience (including food security) of smallholders.
Though agricultural productivity has been growing, it remains low, and many people employed in agriculture remain poor. To better understand the potential interventions that can catalyze transformation through agriculture, we studied 20 crop-specific value chains across five countries in Africa.
This paper seeks to identify how African countries can increase the value they capture from this commodity, with a focus on how they can access higher value-added parts of the value chain.
The study covers study the interplay between market structure and domestic complementary factors in the production and consumption decisions of agricultural families in Africa. It is interested in modeling the production allocation of factors of production to various cash and...
