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potentials in agriculture and food systems in Africa for enhanced food security. For maximum impact, the Special Initiative "One … Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), that was initiated in 2003 and has been reinforced by the Malabo … growth in Africa, improvements in productivity will need to be a major driver of growth in the future. Thus, agricultural …
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Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than 110 million. With … one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable …
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minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and …
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This paper provides a literature review on youth employment challenges in rural Africa. The rapidly changing … Africa, and the latter is growing especially fast, even though it remains much lower than farming in absolute terms. Despite … work in the food and agriculture sector, and the share is higher in some countries, close to 40% in Kenya, Liberia, Malawi …
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, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on hand tools for farming, which implies heavy physical work and, thus, high energy …
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Hunger has become ever more complex, and therefore efforts to sustainably eradicate hunger and malnutrition depend on policies and programs that match these complexities. Innovations are critical for progress. However, they require increased public and private investments as well. Key elements...
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numerous mobile phone-enabled services (m-services) in the areas of health, education, agriculture and entertainment. However … applications in the agriculture sector. The extent to which benefits can be realised on a large scale will depend on a number of …
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This study analyzes the critical role played by farmers' organizations (FOs) in transforming agriculture in Africa …. Specifically, it provides an overview of the state of continental and regional FOs in Africa. It also uses three-country (Senegal … move agriculture to the next level, the existing FOs require energizing, first through building the capacity of the …
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The paper reviews and evaluates the global political discussions of G-8 and G-20 Member countries on food security and food price volatility since the L'Aquila Initiative in 2009. It shows that some progress was achieved with respect to better coordination of agricultural policies and stricter...
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-fed agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa, people usually engage in both temporary and permanent migration after consecutive years of bad …, food insecurity, weak economic growth and the widespread food poverty in Africa today. Due to overreliance on rain … harvests and reduced incomes from agriculture with migration acting as an adaptation strategy to climatic shocks. Food value …
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