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Gender, Food Security and Livelihoods: The Case of Plan Ghana And Sissala
Bediako, J.A.; Debrah, Kofi - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
The study was used by Plan International to formulate a common Nutrition Action Plan for its food and nutrition security interventions in developing countries. The aim was to get insight into the food and nutrition security as well as livelihoods status at the household and community level of...
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Labor requirements and profitability of alternative soil fertility replenishment technologies in Zambia
Ajayi, Olu Clifford; Akinnifesi, Festus K. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
-saharan Africa. The problem is exacerbated by government withdrawal from fertilizer input markets and the inability of private sector … with fertilizer to improve food security and reduce poverty among resource-poor smallholder farmers in Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068446
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Agricultural Growth, Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Outcomes of AAAE Conference
Nambiro, Elizabeth; Omare, Musa N.; Nkamleu, Guy Blaise - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
Africa and urgent measures are needed to increase farm yields and incomes in order to stem collapse of economies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256555
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Agriculture for Food and Nutrition Security: A Must For Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
Dittoh, Saa; Abizari, Abdul-Razak; Akuriba, Margaret A. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
significant degree. The paper argues that food production, poverty, malnutrition and health are very intricately linked and the … Africa. It also argues that it is a misconception that food security implies or is synonymous with food and nutrition …
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Evaluation de la diffusion et de l’adoption des variétés de riz NERICA en Guinée
Diagne, Aliou; Sogbossi, Marie-Josee; Diawara, Sekou; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
L’objectif de la présente étude est d’évaluer la diffusion et l’adoption des variétés de riz NERICA en Guinée cinq années après leur introduction. Les données collectées en 2002 sont relatives à 1535 paysans choisis dans 79 villages des quatre régions naturelles de la Guinée....
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Cereal price instability in Ethiopia: An examination of sources and policy options
Shahidur, Rashid; Meron, Assefa - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
Managing food price instability is a long standing policy challenge, which, with mixed experiences of agricultural price policy reforms, has re-emerged as a contemporary policy issue. This is particularly true for Ethiopia, where managing food price stability continues to be a formidable policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068379
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Multivariate Typology of Farm Households Based on Socio-Economic Characteristics Explaining Adoption of New Technology in Rwanda
Bidogeza, J.C.; Berentsen, Paul B.M.; De Graaff, J.; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
The challenge for agricultural policymakers and planners, particularly in the context of Rwanda with high population density and consequently food insecurity, is how to enable farmers to adopt new technology. It is known that adoption of new technology may vary among farm households because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068381
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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068384
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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068386
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Agricultural Growth, Rural Poverty and Hunger In Africa
Otieno, Zipora Awuor - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the … International development community. Poverty in Africa is predominately rural, majority of the poor people live in rural areas and … over two hundred million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live in extreme poverty and among these are the rural poor in Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068388