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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 …
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crops like coffee fail to deliver expected livelihoods. Fourth, and in sum, more systematic use of livelihood-security and …
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. Next, we analyze countrylevel, historical contexts where export crops, such as coffee and cotton, have been implicated in …
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We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee … sector, including an elimination of vertical integration for most exporters. Ethiopia’s coffee export earn-ings improved …
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We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee … sector, including an elimi-nation of vertical integration for most exporters. Ethiopia’s coffee export earnings increased … quality of coffee improved only slightly over this time, but the quantity exported increased by 50 percent, explained by both …
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from Colombia. Using a cross-entropy estimation method, we make efficient use of prior information about the structure of … show that there is a large degree of upward mobility in Colombia, especially at the bottom of the income distribution and …
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and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …
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Agriculture is the largest contributor to the economic well-being of most Nigerians. For the agriculture sector to … also been shown that agriculture R&D could increase agriculture growth and reduce poverty (Fan 2008; Thirtle et al. 2003 …). Therefore, research-based evidence is important to guide decisions that affect Nigeria's agriculture sector and its people. The …
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