This book is a historical review of international food and agriculture since the founding of the international organizations following the Second World War, including the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and into the...

Food aid remains contentious, in part because of presumed producer significant in adding to food availability in many low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to reduce the gap between food consumption needs and supply from domestic production and inventories and commercial imports....

This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of pricing policies, macroeconomic distortions, and...

Financing of agriculture by commercial and non-commercial institutions in rural Sub-Saharan African in recent years has being relatively constant despite remarkable increase in the number of institutions operating within this area. This development may be attributed to how these institutions...

Despite their lauded promise in terms of yields and resilience, climate smart agriculture technologies are not widely used in Sub-Saharan Africa. Even in places where adoption occurred, many farmers abandon these technologies after only a few years. We study this problem by investigating the...

As the digital economy has touched the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), it is useful to examine the impact of the digital economy on agricultural development. The study uses a panel data of 35 SSA countries from 2006 to 2021 and examines the relationship between digital economy...

Raising agricultural is essential to boosting gross domestic product (GDP), reducing poverty, improving food security, and achieving structural transformation across Africa. Yet, Africa's agricultural intensification has not kept pace with that of other developing regions. One significant and...

Acknowledging that the agricultural sector can play an important role as an engine of pro-poor growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, the purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that influence the political willʺ of governments to support this sector. The concept of political resourcesʺ from...