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The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...
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"In recent years bioenergy... has drawn attention as a sustainable energy source that may help cope with rising energy prices, address environmental concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and offer new income and employment to farmers and rural communities around the world. For many countries...
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productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural … productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost …
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Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests … that inexpensive health interventions can have a very large impact on labor productivity. The macro-level evidence at the …
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increase in agricultural productivity and reduction in poverty rate." from authors' abstract …
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productivity and income in Africa. Possible future climates are presented through different climate scenarios. The latter combines … economic model run sequentially. The study reveals that land productivity and farm income decline under climate change …. Depending on the changes in precipitation, farm productivity falls by 15 to 20 percent and farm income 5 to 20 percent when the …
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Agriculture in Ghana accounts for about 40 percent of national economy, three quarters of export earnings, and employs 60 percent of the labor force. Agriculture is the backbone of the economy (McKay and Aryeetey, 2004) and the sector has served as the main driver for the growth over the last...
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productivity and reducing poverty. A study by Alene et al. (2007) showed that a 50 percent increase in the Nigerian research budget …
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This report has been prepared in response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people. Findings suggest that because of the climate change impacts on agricultural production (yield change) and international food prices, unless...
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The tomato sector in Ghana has failed to reach its potential, in terms of attaining yields comparable to other countries, in terms of the ability to sustain processing plants, and in terms of improving the livelihoods of those households involved in tomato production and the tomato commodity...
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