Part I -- 1 Introduction -- Aim and Contribution -- Case Study Approach -- References -- 2 The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development -- Agriculture for Development -- Agricultural Development -- References -- 3 The Role of the State in Agricultural Development -- Agricultural Policies --...

1. An Overview: A Multidimensional Economic Assessment of Africa -- 2. Determinants of Smallholders’ Export-Oriented Cash Crop Production Decisions in Ethiopia: A Case of the Sesame Sector -- 3. Spatial integration of livestock markets in Ethiopia -- 4. New Urban Consumption Patterns and Local...

Chapter 1: Background issues -- Chapter 2: Commodity Value Chains Structures -- Chapter 3: Commodity Clusters, arenas, linkages, and business models -- Chapter 4: Priority products, supporting services and institutions -- Chapter 5: Systemic constraints within commodity value chains -- Chapter...

Section 1. Africa’s Agricultural Renaissance -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The imperative of investing in agriculture to catalyze national development -- Chapter 3. The Current State of African Agriculture -- Chapter 4. Agriculture-poverty-inequality nexus in Africa: Theory and...

1. African smallholders and their market environment -- 2.African Agricultural Value Chains: A Brief Historical Overview -- 3. Economic theory and value chain governance -- 4. The evolution of Agricultural Value Chains in Africa -- 5. Small holders and Markets -- 6. Product quality and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America -- Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal -- Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda -- Chapter...

This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of the its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing...

Chapter One: Background -- Chapter Two: Agri-Food Systems And Agribusiness Concepts -- Chapter Three: Farming As A Business -- Chapter Four: Introduction To Supply And Value Chains -- Chapter Five: Agro-Industries As Anchors Of Agribusiness -- Chapter Six: Sustaining Agribusiness For Inclusive...

Regional Economic Integration in Africa: An Introduction -- Part I: The Economic Regions in Africa -- The State of the Unions -- The Logical Sequence of Regional Economic Integration -- The Reality of African Trade Integration - Challenges of Implementation -- Regional Integration in Trade...

Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries: Applying Financial Technology as a Panacea -- Revisiting the East Asian financial crises: Lessons from ethics and development pathways -- Financial Development and Natural Resources Rents-Human Capital Nexus: A New Approach -- Financial Inclusion...