demands of stakeholders within the food and agriculture system. To provide a focus for SLARI and link its agenda to national …

remarkable recovery in the performance of Sub-Saharan Africa's agriculture during the 1984–2003 period after a long period of … an important role in improving agriculture's performance. As TFP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly a result of …

framework of the Agricultural Development Plan (ADP), is in the process of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture … meeting the Maputo declaration of spending at least ten percent of the government's total budget on agriculture. In fact, even … under a more optimistic and efficient spending scenario, the Government of Malawi must increase its spending on agriculture …

"Public spending on agriculture in Nigeria is exceedingly low. Less than 2 percent of total federal expenditure was … allotted to agriculture during 2001 to 2005, far lower than spending in other key sectors such as education, health, and water … beyond agriculture. There is an urgent need to improve internal systems for tracking, recording, and disseminating …

profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been recognized as one of the reasons for the increased intensity of …. Since agriculture is the main activity of rural people in many endemic areas, it has been suggested that effective malaria … control measures can be devised if attention was paid to the two-way effects of agriculture and malaria. There is the need to …