In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder …

rural China and Tanzania, this study finds however that people are more likely to spend unearned income on less basic …

Much of Sub-Saharan Africa's post-independence macroeconomic history has been characterized by boom-bust cycles. Growth …

. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely … in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, to maximize the poverty reducing effects, the right agricultural technology and investments …

Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …

Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts … Tanzania. The authors find that, relative to a no-climate-change baseline and considering domestic agricultural production as … the principal channel of impact, food security in Tanzania appears likely to deteriorate as a consequence of climate …

increase Africa-wide with the very hot and dry climate scenario, except in the lowland semi-arid agro-ecological zone. Millet … scenarios. Wheat would decrease across Africa. The authors recommend that care must be taken to match adaptations to local …

modified Heckman model, is then estimated across 8,400 farmers in Africa. The analysis explicitly models irrigation but … sensitive to climate change. Many farmers in Africa will experience net revenue losses from warming. Irrigated farms, on the … temperatures provided there is sufficient water available. This will be an effective remedy in select regions of Africa with water …

impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a … runoff across the whole continent of Africa rather than to any particular catchment or water resource system. The model … Ricardian regressions in other analyses measuring likely impacts of climate change on the agricultural economies of Africa. …