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Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate …The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina …
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, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo – and explores how climate change …The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso …
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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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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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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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"Two possible adaptation options to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The … first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area … than an expansion of irrigated area. Even though Sub-Saharan Africa is not a key contributor to global food production or …
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representation of women in the field of agricultural science and technology (S&T) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Female scientists … research and higher education agencies in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first study of its kind to present … included in this study increased by 20 percent between 2000/01 and 2007/08, and women constituted almost half of this capacity …
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"This paper examines the role of postsecondary agricultural education and training (AET) in Sub-Saharan Africa in the … context of the region's agricultural innovation systems. Specifically, the paper looks at how AET in Sub-Saharan Africa can …
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"This paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate the agricultural spending that will be required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty and growth-expenditure elasticities to estimate...
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