There are well-founded fears that it is unrealistic to expect Africa to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 1 (MDG1 … for 10% of total public spending to be on agriculture, and the 2006 Abuja Declaration calling for an increase in … trigger sufficient agricultural growth rate to meet MDG1. Meanwhile, budgetary allocation to agriculture in many African …

. Accelerating growth in agriculture will therefore be critical to sustain growth and reduce poverty,but policy makers are unsure … simulate productivity gains in sub-Saharan agriculture subjectto trade-offs between gains in crops and gains in livestock. The …