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 …

"This paper has been prepared in support of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) roundtable … in Ghana. The study also takes a fresh perspective on the role of agriculture for development in light of the global food … percent growth target. In this process, agriculture supports the rest of the economy through substantial and largely invisible …

focus on risk related to agriculture, since vulnerability and agriculture are intimately linked in SSA due to the location … of the poor, their dependence on agriculture and the inherent risks of an agricultural livelihood. We argue that …, agriculture is not homogeneous, and the inherent risks vary across countries and regions. Therefore, we also discuss appropriate …

agricultural growth. Growth in agriculture is found to benefit both urban and rural households, whereas industry-led growth …, however, is not optimistic about agriculture's growth potential, focusing more heavily on industry-led growth. Therefore, as … the 6 percent agricultural growth target of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program, which Kenya has …