An Evolving Paradigm for Africa and Synthesis of the Lessons from Asia -- Mechanization Outsourcing Clusters and … tractors and other agricultural machinery have been widely adopted. Can Asia's success offer a model for Africa? An Evolving … Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn from Asia? analyzes the mechanization experiences …

Yemen is an oil-exporting and food-importing country with the highest levels of poverty in the Middle East and North … Africa. The impacts of the triple crisis are likely to further complicate pre-existing conditions of conflict, oil depletion … sharply and raised the poverty rate to 42.8%, up from 34.8% in 2005/6. Poverty continues to be higher in rural areas, where …