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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …
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The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the … farmers and consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors find that reforms have had many favorable results, but that the … development of agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, identifying areas where governments can play a supportive role. They …
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This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on specific themes under various “global...
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The sector-wide approach currently dominates as the strategy for developing the agricultural sector of many African countries. Although it is recognized that agricultural research plays a vital role in ensuring success of sectorwide agricultural development strategies, there has been little or...
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In this paper we assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a recently developed variety of maize that is high in provitamin A in the context of a public health intervention and (b) the performance of three elicitation mechanisms in estimating WTP in a field experiment in Ghana....
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The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major achievement of African agriculture but was predicated on a government commitment to parastatal grain and seed marketing, the provision of services to maize growers, and a...
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eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland … change makes the challenges greater. Southern Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation …
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security despite such constraints. Genetically Modified Crops in Africa: Economic and Policy Lessons from Countries South of … skeptical of them. These and other findings in Genetically Modified Crops in Africa indicate ways biotechnology can contribute … to economic development in Africa south of the Sahara. …
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order to better understand its current status, issues, constraints, and opportunities for Africa. Agricultural biotechnology …€™s role in Africa. In addition, because we have attempted to focus our review on peer-reviewed evidence and documented …
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