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Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...
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sustainable irrigation technologies. As working population moves out of agriculture, urbanisation will gather pace. However …
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carried out between 1975-2005 in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Making a distinction between the successful projects and …
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countries, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It also provides a conceptual framework for linking these phenomena …
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Asia is home to 60% of the world's population, 52% of global agricultural production, and 43% of agriculture …
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The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...
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This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital to boosting the demand for labour in Africa. Africa has some …
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Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). …
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African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …
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The impacts of European agricultural and trade policies on agricultural development and food security in Africa are … agricultural trade flows between the EU and Africa as a whole and in the context of case studies on meat and milk; (iii) a …; and (iv) model simulations of the effects of possible reform projects on production in and trade flows with Africa. The …
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