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 …

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership … as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …

Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge … benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a … collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low …

, and reduce poverty. In the short term, however, these goals may compete with one another. This book focuses on the … interactions between agricultural growth and environment and between environment and poverty. The chapters analyze and illustrate …

related to the symptoms of poverty at the expense of the longer-term needs to raise productivity and incomes, and thereby … tackle the real roots of poverty. Because of scarce budget resources, there is a major challenge for African governments in … smallholder productivity, achieve food security, and reduce poverty, while providing the social services that respond to immediate …

variability and change on economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia. The hydro-crop model is first used to estimate the … DCGE model to assess the impact of climate variability on economic growth and poverty. We find that climate variability … below the national poverty line by 2016. A similar method is also used to examine the potential impact of climate change on …

Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition. Other reasons identified include unacceptably high levels of poverty in rural … nutrition considerations and activities into poverty reduction, agricultural development policies, and food security …

Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into … National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2007, about 69 million people were living in poverty, which represents 54.4 percent of the … Nigerian population. Since the 1980s, the Nigerian poverty situation has been deteriorating. …