African Agriculture
Metafrontier Analysis of Technology Gap and Productivity Difference in African Agriculture
... From a policy point of view, these regional differences show the type of interventions needed to be putted in place in each region for enhancing the productivity of African agriculture. In some regions, ...
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Drivers of climate risk in African agriculture
... special issue sets out the process of generating the synthesis papers). PAR which was used within projects is a collabora- tive research approach involving iterations of action and re fl ection (German et al., 2012). ...
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What accounts for growth in African agriculture
... In all regions, it is apparent that fertilizer is the most important physical input contributor to agricultural growth. Suggesting that fertilizer is a good foundation, on which one can build strong equitable ...
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Aid for trade and African agriculture : the bittersweet case of Swazi sugar
... of African agriculture, as traditional exporters found themselves exposed to volatile world markets and a widening spread of premiums and discounts within the transnational sourcing strategies of ...
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Globalisation, structural adjustment and african agriculture: analysis and evidence
... the African Green Revolution that SAP short-circuited in the 1980s, donors are now scrambling to think of ways of boosting smallholder ...for African smallholders prior to the food price ...small-scale ...
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Prospect of Sub-Saharan African Agriculture Amid Climate Change: A Review of Relevant Literatures
... affect agriculture and could lead to flooding and erosion of low lying areas, with negative consequences for crop and livestock production and for the rural communities that depend on agriculture for their ...
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Can Market Access Help African Agriculture?
... in African countries. Since the mid-1980s, African countries have undertaken important reforms within the framework of the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) in order to eliminate non-tariff protection ...
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Productivity Growth, Technical Progress and Efficiency Change in African Agriculture
... most African countries, because of its importance in overall GDP, export earnings and employment as well as its forward and backward linkages to the non-farm sector, growth in the agricultural sector will continue ...
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Climate security and a vulnerability model for conflict prevention: a systematic literature review focusing on African agriculture
... Whilst the previous section addressed vulnerability re- duction through various methods of farm level adapta- tion, crop diversification and mixed-use farming among others, as direct actions to manage the impacts of cli- ...
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Green Agricultural Productivity Growth and Convergence in sub Saharan Africa
... (SSA), agriculture covers 60% of working population, apart from some countries in Southern Africa, some oil countries of the Golf of Guinea and notable exception as Nigeria, Ivory Coast or Cameroon where ...
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Emerging Issues and Concerns of African Countries in the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and the Doha Round
... common African positions on some of the key issues under the Doha Development ...Geneva-based African trade negotiators established at the end of the Uruguay Round to enable African countries pool ...
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Urban agriculture in Africa: a bibliographical survey
... Paper presented at the IDRC Workshop on The Contribution of Urban Agriculture to Food Security in West African Cities, Ouagadougou, 15-18 June, 1998.. Ottens, The role of street foo[r] ...
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African Organic Agriculture Training Manual
... Sustainable Agriculture with the goal to promote organic farming in ...Organic Agriculture and their partners to publish reliable data and ...The African Organic Agriculture Training Manual is ...
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Impacts of literacy rate and human development indices on agricultural production in South Africa
... the agriculture GDP; LRA is literacy rate index and HDI is Human Development Index; while the parameters to be estimated are β 0 , β 1 and β 2; μ i is the disturbance ...
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Vulnerability Assessment of West African Countries to Climate Change and Variability
... DOI: 10.4236/gep.2019.76002 17 Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection an important source of productivity growth; especially in Sub-Saharan Africa that still have large untapped water resources for ...
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Irrigated agriculture for food self-sufficiency in the sub-Saharan African region
... Furthermore, donor interest in this sector has waned for a number of reasons, such as the decline in world food prices, the high per-hectare development cost (which moreover increases because the easiest areas to develop ...
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Promotion and Utilization of Niche Foods for Food and Nutrition Security
... neglected. African Leafy Vegetables like black night shade, amaranth, cowpeas, and many others are quite nutritious apart from possessing some medicinal ...Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) has in the ...
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Developing a continental atlas of the distribution and trypanosomal infection of tsetse flies (Glossina species)
... against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT), joining the efforts of the Food and Agriculture Orga- nization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Atomic Energy Agency ...
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Modes of mobilisation : socio political dynamics in Somaliland, Somalia, and Afghanistan
... Afghan National Army Afghanistan National Development Strategy Afghan National Police Accelerating Sustainable Agriculture Program African Union Basic Needs Approach Conflict Analysis Fr[r] ...
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Climate change, household vulnerability and smart agriculture: The case of two South African provinces
... Support for crop-livestock farmers should be appropriate to smallholding and multi-purpose production systems and facilitate the development of local market-oriented subsistence production. Intensifying the current ...
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