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The agriculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the … of their occupation. About 67 percent of the population in India is aged 15-64 years while 27 percent is aged 0-14 years … (UNFPA n.d.). This offers both a challenge and an opportunity to skill the youth as well as the existing workforce in India …
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A mutual, two-way dependence of structural transformation and food security has bedeviled the development profession for decades, which has often ignored the critical role of agricultural development and food price stability as the underlying foundations to both structural transformation and...
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We measure if and to what extent livestock sales during food shortages affect the wealth value of livestock. For this purpose we exploit monthly market prices of meat and staple foods in Malawi, for up to 72 locations (towns, villages and markets), for the period from January 1991 to December...
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high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …
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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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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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, food insecurity, weak economic growth and the widespread food poverty in Africa today. Due to overreliance on rain …-fed agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa, people usually engage in both temporary and permanent migration after consecutive years of bad …
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components to sustainable development in Africa. However, continuing population growth, impacts of climate change and …
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