-poor agricultural growth and of policies that can promote such growth in poor rural economies in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa … difficulties in today's poor rural areas in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these difficulties are endogenous to these … development in poor rural areas. This broad hypothesis was tested in an analysis of the returns (in agricultural growth and …

elicitation mechanisms, using samples drawn from the rural population in Senegal, West Africa. Whatever the intellectual merits of … measuring both the preferences and understanding of rural populations in the developing world. This is vitally important for … at the possible cost of seriously diminished levels of comprehension or nonincentivized questions in the rural developing …

Poverty is a rural phenomenon in most of the developing world, especially the low-income developing countries. The … rural poor make up more than 75 percent of the poor in many Sub-Saharan African and Asian countries. Accelerated public … investments are needed to facilitate agricultural and rural growth. These investments need to be supported by an enabling policy …

nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural … enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among farming, natural resource stocks and flows, rural infrastructure, and the …

The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi … will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. East Africa's populations is …

€”extreme poverty, armed conflict, economic and political turmoil, and climate shocks—are now most prevalent in Africa. Researchers … famine context. Broadening current theories and models of development for conquering famine, Famine in Africa grounds its … results of field work and other research from numerous parts of Africa, with a particular focus on Botswana, Ethiopia, Niger …

have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa …