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Synergistic Green and White Revolution: Evidence from Kenya and Uganda
Jia, Xiangping - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Africa, subsidizing fertilizer is not sufficient; there exists multiple trajectories to achieve in food security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069546
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Long-Term Determinants of Agricultural Output in Smallholder Farmers in Rwanda
Musafiri, Ildephonse; Mirzabaev, Alisher - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
This paper analyses the household level drivers of agricultural output in Nyabihu District, a densely populated area of rural Rwanda, over the past 26 years. We use a unique two-wave panel dataset spanning a 26-year period, linking the split-off households in 2012 to the original households in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069002
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A meta-regression analysis of frontier efficiency estimates from Africa
Ogundari, Kolawole - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
by experience; extension and credit are the major drivers of agricultural efficiency levels in Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069033
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Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security
Haggblade, Steven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate … agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and … agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145115
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Smallholder Heterogeneity and Maize Market Participation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Implications for Investment Strategies to Increase Marketed Food Staple Supply
Mather, David; Boughton, Duncan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
living for both rural and urban households. Hence, these objectives figure prominently in Comprehensive Africa Agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368797
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The Value of Accurate Crop Production Forecasts.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Rashid, Shahidur - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Crop production forecasts are widely recognized as an important input into food balance sheets and for anticipating production shortfalls. However, the role of accurate crop production forecasting systems in mitigating food price instability and transitory food insecurity is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741279
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Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security
Haggblade, Steven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate … agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and … agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741280
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Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Food Security Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
, the greatest number of the food insecure lives in South Asia, while Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest proportion of … research and outreach, primarily in Africa, and their value to the U.S. Global Food Security Initiative in addressing the major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555529
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Staple Food Trade in the COMESA Region: The Need for a Regional Approach to Stimulate Agricultural Growth and Enhance Food Security
Nijhoff, Jan J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Twenty Fourth Meeting of the Trade and Customs Committee Nairobi, Kenya 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543652
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Improving Food Security in Africa: Highlights of 25 Years of Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
addressing the major current challenges facing food and agricultural systems in Africa are summarized in FSG (2009). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504231