Part I : Agricultural intensification and technical change -- Modern agricultural technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa : a four-country analysis / Gershon Feder and Sara Savastano -- Revisiting the farm size-productivity relationship : new evidence from sub-Saharan African countries /...

The Boserup-Ruthenberg framework has long been used to explain and understand the determinants of agricultural growth, the nature of the intensification of farming systems, investment, and technology adoption. The literature has produced an extensive body of evidence that summarizes or tests the...

Over the past decade, economic and agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has resumed. The secular downward trend in agricultural prices ended in the early 1990s; growing incomes in Asia and Africa, combined with continued rapid population growth, are fueling food demand, which is...