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agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved … shifting roles of industry vs. agriculture and that of government, and the public sector vs. markets and the private sector …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …
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differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income … credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more …
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livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS …
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Alterations in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures due to climate change will most likely translate into yield reductions in desirable crops. In this particular context, the object of this paper is to lay down findings and results for projected yield impacts in Morocco using a...
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Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … guidance as well as inputs for a policy dialogue that aimed to integrate gender in the agriculture sector. This paper uses the …
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Agriculture plays an important role in terms of employment and its contribution to gross domestic product in many … went into agriculture, forestry, and fishing, while education received 10.3 per cent, population and reproductive health 11 … investigates why aid to agriculture has been low, and how the share of ODA to agriculture can be improved. …
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modeled using the AquaCrop software. The results show that all water demands (municipal, hydropower, and agriculture) cannot …
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Although agriculture is important for the livelihood of most Africans, especially the poor, donors did not accord it a … high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …
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The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that … that seek to engage young people with agriculture must be more realistic, rooted in more context-specific economic and … social analysis, and appreciative of the variety of ways that rural men and women use agriculture to serve their needs and …
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