Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced growth in gross domestic product (GDP) averaging 5% per annum over the … last ten years. It is a growth rate that outstrips that of many other countries except some in South-East Asia, but unlike … in Asian countries the growth has not translated into employment. Very large numbers of young people across Africa hope …

Mha of suitable land may be available to bring into cultivation, much of it in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and … Russia. Improved returns in farming and relatively cheap land in some countries have translated into a sharp rise in domestic … very heterogeneous, with many from emerging countries and some with little track record in agriculture, but supported by …

panel of speakers and the extended question and answer session — was, in short, that the world probably has enough land …, nutrients and water and, one might infer, ingenuity, in aggregate, to meet the challenge. Yet a foodsecure world will only be … actual yields, as well as increased investment in research to raise yield potential. Increased production, based on a better …

The Sir John Crawford Memorial Address has been presented since 1985, in honour of the distinguished Australian civil … servant, educator and agriculturalist in whose name the Crawford Fund was established. Sir John Crawford was a remarkable … 2025, only 13 years away. The four trends are: population growth; rapidly expanding urbanisation especially in Africa and …

, overseas development assistance for agriculture dropped from over $20 billion in the 1980s to as little as $3 billion in 2006 …. Stagnation in the yields of major crops such as rice, wheat and maize followed, and the status quo finally crumbled with the food … pests and diseases. Agriculture holds enormous potential to reduce poverty in the developing world, strengthen the …

will have to include reduction in land degradation and unsustainable overuse of fertilisers, pesticides, fungicides …