Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among …

in Africa are well suited for rice and are encouraged by the field tests of new rice varieties. So is Africa poised for … productivity, incomes, and poverty, and compares current conditions in Africa with the conditions that prevailed in Asia as its … rice revolution got under way. An important conclusion is that, to a degree, a rice revolution has already begun in Africa …

economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a … growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual …

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder … farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo …

This paper investigates the potential of and constraints to a rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa's large … between fertilizer and irrigation. Meanwhile, in the schemes located in four countries in West Africa's Sahel region, where …