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This analysis explores the relationship between agricultural R&D investments and rural poverty reduction, and the prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It uses a panel data set of internationally comparable poverty dis-aggregated by urban and rural areas, country level...
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environment and increased investments in agriculture at a time when African governments and donors have been rallying to increase … their support to agriculture. Is African agriculture undergoing a new and sustained recovery after many decades of stagnant … policy environment and increased attention to agriculture has had a major effect on overall productivity growth based on …
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public spending in the agricultural sector, considering expenditures on agriculture as a whole versus expenditures on …
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The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been …
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This paper looks at the prioritization of agricultural value chains (VCs) for the allocation of R&D resources that maximize development outcomes (poverty, growth, jobs, and diets). Considering that growth in VCs affects those various outcomes differently, as expansion pathways result in the...
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sectors, including agriculture, education and health. Yet despite broad agreement on the multisectoral nature of the global …
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) policy synergies between different sectors (agriculture, nutrition, health, water supply and sanitation, education) should be …
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relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
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clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
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Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how...
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