Research Resources

  1. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO): UNIDO provides strategic research including a World Productivity Database and an Economic Development in African Report for 2011. They also have an Arab Programme page.
  2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Africa Region page had news and statistics about African agriculture as well as water usage.
  3. Energy, Environment and Development Network for Africa (AFREPREN/FWD) is a resource for energy related articles and information.
  4. United Nations Economic commission for Africa’s ICT page: Provides articles and research on ICT in Africa.
  5. Independent consultant Mike Jensen’s articles about ICT in Africa give a good overview of the sector’s development on the Continent.
  6. AfricaAdapt is an independent bilingual network (French/English) focused exclusively on Africa. The Network’s aim is to facilitate the flow of climate change adaptation knowledge for sustainable livelihoods between researchers, policy makers, civil society organizations and communities who are vulnerable to climate variability and change across the continent.
  7. Agricultural Innovation Systems: Part 1 is a World Bank publication on managing the ability of agriculture to meet rising global demand and to respond to the changes and opportunities will require good policy, sustained investments, and innovation - not business as usual. Investments in public Research and Development, extension, education, and their links with one another have elicited high returns and pro-poor growth, but these investments alone will not elicit innovation at the pace or on the scale required by the intensifying and proliferating challenges confronting agriculture. Experience indicates that aside from a strong capacity in Research and Development, the ability to innovate is often related to collective action, coordination, the exchange of knowledge among diverse actors, the incentives and resources available to form partnerships and develop businesses.
  8. Filled with case studies from within Africa and success stories from developing nations around the world, The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa outlines the policies and institutional changes necessary to promote agricultural innovation across the African continent. Incorporating research from academia, government, civil society, and private industry, the book suggests multiple ways that individual African countries can work together at the regional level to develop local knowledge and resources, harness technological innovation, encourage entrepreneurship, increase agricultural output, create markets, and improve infrastructure.
  9. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Knowledge Products are research tools, best practices, and services, which IFPRI shares as international public goods to increase use and impact in development and facilitate policy and decision making.

    IFPRI’s Knowledge Products, which include models and data as well as practitioner’s guides, are living tools; they are used and further enhanced by experts inside and outside of IFPRI through networks, platforms, and portals.

  10. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for sustainable development with the funders of this work. The CGIAR's research focuses on crop productivity, forestry and agroforestry, water management, aquaculture, and livestock.

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