available, often outdated. In a special issue of Food Policy, 12 papers revisit conventional wisdom on African agriculture and …-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative in six African countries. At times, the findings simply confirm the common understanding of …

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

How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically … official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture could generate, contrary to traditional Dutch disease concerns, an …

This paper uses the Ricardian approach to examine how farmers in 11 countries in Africa have adapted to existing …. Furthermore, it tackles the challenges involved in modeling the effect of climate on agriculture in a study that includes … countries in the northern and southern hemispheres, as well as the tropics. The study confirms that African agriculture is …

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 …

Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is … modified Heckman model, is then estimated across 8,400 farmers in Africa. The analysis explicitly models irrigation but … separately in the Ricardian model, irrigation must be modeled endogenously. The results also indicate that African agriculture is …

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 …, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these …

paper deepens the discussion about productivity growth and upgrading in agriculture in Africa, and the role of national …