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One of the key economic development challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is its low agricultural productivity …. Governments, donors, and foreign investors have underinvested in African agriculture even though research evidence shows that … Moments to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture and rural development is helping to boost …
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Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Development Indicators (WDI … variables, while population is a control variable. Two agricultural variables (agriculture production and agriculture credit …) are employed with six variables of institutional framework. The findings show that in the long-run, agriculture production …
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Agricultural productivity remains pivotal to the sustenance of the economies and livelihoods of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …
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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank's General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO...
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health care makes this study to examine the impact of crude oil, natural gas and agriculture output on inclusive growth in … Lag suggests that crude oil and natural gas production insignificantly impact inclusive growth while agriculture output is … growth spread in Nigeria whereas the agriculture resource is critical for inclusive growth. It is important to focus on …
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Agriculture remains one of the major sources of livelihood in West Africa. The sector accounts for a significant share … agricultural productivity in West Africa from 1990 to 2020. Using the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and the Common Correlated Effect … agricultural productivity in West Africa. We discussed some policy implications based on these findings. …
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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world …
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growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three instruments of forest exploitation, the study shows how rural …
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Africa. This research contributes to the gender debate in agriculture from a CSR perspective in developing countries and … nutritional security. This is achieved by enhancing coherence in policies on gender, agriculture, nutrition, health, trade and … relevant food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. This implies that promoting the implementation of everybody's right …
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