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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
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eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland …, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food … change makes the challenges greater. Southern Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation …
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. Aflatoxicosis: Evidence from Kenya by Abigael Obura 3. Aflatoxin Exposure and Chronic Human Diseases: Estimates of Burden of Disease …: Implications for Intervention in Kenya by Sophie Walker and Bryn Davies 8. Market-led Aflatoxin Interventions: Smallholder … Groundnut Value Chains in Malawi by Andrew Emmott 9. Aflatoxin Management in the World Food Programme through P4P Local …
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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"This report provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance … for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries …
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"This paper provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance … for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries …
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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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Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in these three areas, however, is a...
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process. Using the case of GM cotton in Uganda, the authors illustrate the evaluation of socioeconomic impact on farmers, the …
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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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