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-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. …
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distribution of vulnerability among households was skewed with mean 0.76. On average 89% of the households had a probability of … production and hence their vulnerability to climate changes. In addition, social networks and use of hired labour positively …
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Africa. It also argues that it is a misconception that food security implies or is synonymous with food and nutrition …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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and Southern Africa where the worlds highest concentration of poor people are found. Given Agriculture’s central role in … the region’s economies, can agriculture play a major role in poverty alleviation? How can Africa’s role in poverty …The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the …
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The paper estimates the cost of tsetse control and treatment of trypanosomiasis and the benefits involved, using benefit-cost analysis. It also estimates the extent to which socio-economic characteristics of farmers affect the use of tsetse control techniques, using a maximum Likelihood-Binary...
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Une enquête diagnostique a été conduite en zones agro-écologiques côtière et guinéenne du Bénin pour évaluer le niveau d’exposition à l’aflatoxine d’origine alimentaire et l’état nutritionnel et de santé des enfants de moins de 5 ans. La régression multiple et une analyse...
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et d'élevage expliquent la croissance de l’agriculture et le développement de la région. Cette mutation a touché aussi la …
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