African farmers have traditionally pursued shifting cultivation in response to population growth and declining soil fertility. Rural population growth and displacement, due to urban expansion and the gazetting of parks and protected areas, have long encouraged the cultivation of new land by...

There is growing concern that the HIV/AIDS epidemic may reduce long-term human capital development through reductions in child schooling in SSA, thus severely limiting the longterm ability of orphans and their extended families to escape poverty. In response, some have called for targeted...

Research Results from the Department of Statistics and the Policy Department, MINAG-Directorate of Economics

Resultados da Investigação do Departamento de Estatística e do Departamento de Políticas, Direcção de Economia, MINAG