poverty and income distribution implications of trade reform that is focused on agriculture and major food items (rice, corn … possible policy shifts. The simulation results indicate that trade reform in agriculture and major food items will have … economy. The share of agriculture in the total gross domestic product has declined. The country has switched from being a net …

-term objective. Direct transfers to poor consumers, combined with increased public investment in agriculture to improve agricultural …

models applied to agriculture. We extend a stylized standard neoclassical CGE model to a CGE-MC model that includes Leontief … Egypt, we show how such a model can generate realistic results concerning water use and productivity that cannot be captured …

four case studies on Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It argues that food security-related policies and programs build …

and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …

Agriculture is the largest contributor to the economic well-being of most Nigerians. For the agriculture sector to … also been shown that agriculture R&D could increase agriculture growth and reduce poverty (Fan 2008; Thirtle et al. 2003 …). Therefore, research-based evidence is important to guide decisions that affect Nigeria's agriculture sector and its people. The …

The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of East African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and … biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050 …