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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing …, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food … scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of Southern African Agriculture and Climate …
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This paper reviews the constraints hindering growth of agricultural productivity in Nigeria by providing an overview of the policy environment that affects agricultural productivity, establishing how the policy environment affects productivity improvement, and proposing lessons relevant for...
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"Agriculture is the main source of livelihood of the majority of people affected by HIV and AIDS globally, and it is …
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"This report provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … traditional theoretical literature on agriculture's role in the development process and discusses more recent literature that … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance …
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"This paper provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … traditional theoretical literature on agriculture's role in the development process and discusses more recent literature that … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance …
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hybrid maize subsidy in Zambia is selectively biased due in part to its delivery mechanism and the self-selection of farmers …
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, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Because the economic effects of macroeconomic adjustment have been confounded by the …
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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 …-generation (F1) hybrid maize seed in Zambia based on a survey of maize growers during the 2010/11 cropping season. We estimate the …
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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey …
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