agriculture. To this end, heads of state in Africa rallied to form the pan-African Comprehensive African Agriculture Development …It is widely agreed that reducing poverty in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) depends largely on stimulating growth in … agriculture alone is not enough. Policy can play an important role not only to make public investment more efficient, but also is …

— higher than on maize farms without CF schemes, more than twice that of several countries in Africa, and more than seven times …

's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within … the same household, from six countries in Africa and Asia to identify which dimensions of women's empowerment are related …

the Africa Agricultural Transformation Scorecard (AATS). The current BR applies equal weights to the seven thematic areas …

evidence from 20 Agriculture Public Expenditure Reviews (Ag PERs) that have been carried out in countries in Africa South of … agriculture has begun to result in improved levels and quality of national expenditure programs for the sector. It synthesizes …, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia …

The development debate in Africa south of the Sahara is often cast as “agriculture versus nonagriculture.” Yet this … literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for … agriculture given the importance of farm incomes for the poor, the extent to which this is true varies by country. In fact …

structure and contribute to the debate on whether Africa should pursue a smallholder-based or large-scale oriented agricultural … of small-scale farmers rather than entry of medium or large farms into agriculture, reflecting small-scale farmers … successfully breaking through the barriers of subsistence agriculture into more commercialized production systems. The findings in …