Research and analysis.
Research, reports and analysis across SAIGE’s six themes. Filter by theme, type or audience, or search the library. The entries shown are illustrative while the archive is built up.
Why market-systems thinking must anchor Africa’s next decade
A case for designing policy around systems, not single interventions.
Africa’s agribusiness intelligence deficit — and how to close it
A continental read on the missing data layer beneath agricultural decision-making.
Climate-smart is not enough: toward regenerative value chains
Moving beyond resilience to value chains that restore the systems they depend on.
The financing gap is a data gap: rethinking agricultural credit
Why credit models fail smallholders, and the evidence base that could fix them.
Building the institutions that outlast the project cycle
Capacity is not a workshop — it is an institution that persists after the funding ends.
Digital advisory at scale — what the evidence actually shows
A measured look at where digital extension works, and where it quietly does not.
Drought, water and the economics of adaptation in the Sahel
Costing adaptation honestly — and where the returns actually land.
Reading the maize market: signals, noise, and decisions
How to separate genuine market signal from seasonal noise in a staple value chain.
A continental framework for open agricultural data
What an open, interoperable agricultural data commons could look like for Africa.
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