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Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), pursue economic growth through agriculture-led development. The ministries need to take … begin to align their policies with those of governments, an increasingly large share of external support to agriculture is … and effectiveness public systems will have significant bearing on effectiveness and impact of investments in agriculture …
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estimation methods, definition and measurement of health variables, choice of economic outcomes, single-equation versus multiple … to estimation bias caused by the endogeneity of health outcomes. We also found significant gaps in the literature; for …
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The CAADP is a commitment of African countries to pursue economic growth through agriculture-led development to reduce … for the development of agriculture. Some of its key principles that are expected to add value are the building of … national budget to agriculture. The objective of this paper is primarily to understand how continental initiatives such as …
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"Recognizing that “gender matters,” many development interventions have aimed to close the gender gap in access to resources, both human and physical, and to address the specific needs of female farmers. This paper critically reviews attempts to increase poor female farmers' access to, and...
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infrastructure development, high literacy rates, and low shares of agriculture in total GDP, are relatively low on the vulnerability … densely populated rural areas, large numbers of small-scale farmers, high dependency on rainfed agriculture and high land …
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combines the advantages of a partial equilibrium approach, which considers detailed water-agriculture linkages, with a general … equilibrium approach, which takes into account linkages between agriculture and nonagricultural sectors and includes a full …
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"We combined a hydro-crop model with a dynamic general equilibrium (DCGE) model to assess the impacts of climate variability and change on economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia. The hydro-crop model is first used to estimate the impact of climate variability on crop yields over the...
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