escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood … of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted … those households found to have risen from poverty (starting in the bottom tercile and ending in the top tercile, the …

agribusiness companies in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, and South Africa. The study was conducted in the context of … anticipated dramatic changes in Africa’s food consumption patterns over coming decades, driven by rising incomes and urban … (1) except for South Africa, companies predominantly employ O-level graduates but (in all countries including South …

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been rapidly urbanizing for many years. Current estimates from the UN are that urban … population growth in East Africa is over 4% per year, while in Southern Africa, which has higher urbanization levels, the growth … is estimated at 2%. Overall in East and Southern Africa (ESA), urban populations in the region are growing about 3% per …

out during 2007/08 in nine of Africa’s main cotton producing countries. The purpose of the study was to draw practical … and weaknesses of the different types of sectors operating in Africa, the likely effects of specific types of policy … implies for cotton sector development in general and the ability of the cotton sector to contribute to poverty reduction in …

fertilizer is a critical yet still-underused input for improving productivity and food security in Africa. Second, politicians …

become increasingly unviable economic and social units. Sustained agricultural productivity growth and poverty reduction will …

Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate … agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and … agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones …

The development of agricultural commodity exchanges in Africa has become an increasingly popular strategy for …

Rural poverty rates in Zambia have remained very high, at 80%, over the past decade and a half, whilst urban poverty … rates have declined, from 49% in 1991 to 34% in 2006. Redressing this high rural poverty rate remains a government priority … years, in 2001, 2004, and 2008, we examine the factors associated with chronic and transient poverty and use the results to …