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 …

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 …

This paper reviews the constraints hindering growth of agricultural productivity in Nigeria by providing an overview of … the policy environment that affects agricultural productivity, establishing how the policy environment affects … productivity improvement, and proposing lessons relevant for future research and policymaking to promote productivity growth in …

Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experimental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the … envelopment analysis–based Malmquist-type productivity index to decompose productivity differences into (1) within-group farm …

Although theory predicts that better property rights to land can increase land productivity through tenure security … quasiexperimental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the Ethiopian land certification program by identifying … intensity (technical efficiency). For this purpose, we adopted a data envelopment analysis–based Malmquist-type productivity …

and agriculture. …

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 evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been … productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural …