Food available to African farmers increases with market access and off-farm opportunities

'This new study suggests that we need to ensure that farmers have access to markets for their produce and also opportunities to diversify their income by working outside the farm, both as daily wage labour and in other sectors, to target poverty and improve food security', Ken Giller, professor Plant Production Systems at Wageningen University, says. 'Much of the focus of agricultural research in relation to rural development in Africa is currently focused on increasing crop yields, while important, it is simply not enough on its own.' The findings were recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in a first paper using big data from small farms in sub-Saharan Africa.

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