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The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … editors and contributors of West 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 …
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The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of West 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145651
Ethiopia’s crop agriculture is complex, involving substantial variation in crops grown across the countryâ …€™s agriculture and food economy, accounting for about three-quarters of total area cultivated, 29 percent of agricultural GDP in 2005 …
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largest oil exporting countries, agriculture still remains the main employer of over 70 percent of the country’s labor force …
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annual growth in agriculture and 8.0 percent growth of GDP over the next years. The national poverty rate will fall to 30 … agriculture, this study first estimates the growth elasticity of public investments using historical spending and agricultural … at 23.8 percent annually to support a 9.5 percent increase in agriculture. However, if the spending efficiency can be …
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In many developing countries, to sustain the provision of agricultural services to farmers, many have advocated the use of service fees. Successful implementation of such schemes requires understanding of determinants of farmers' willingness to pay. In this paper we use a multivariate probit...
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The cocoa sector in Ghana is one of few examples of an export commodity sector in an African country that has withstood the pressure to fully liberalize. Despite substantial government control over internal and external marketing via the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the current institutional...
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In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other …
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-urban agriculture (UPA). Production and processing of crops—particularly horticultural crops—and livestock is frequently part of urban … adequate health-impact assessment of urban agriculture is still incomplete.Research questions remain concerning the level of …
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