The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso … will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa’s population is …

In this paper we assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a recently developed variety of maize that is …

The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major … provision of services to maize growers, and a pan-territorial pricing scheme that was fiscally unsustainable. Declining maize … output when this system was dismantled contributed to the reinstatement in 2002 of subsidies for maize seed and fertilizer …

Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Namibia. Before 2000, Zimbabwe was one of the most industrialized economies in … Africa south of the Sahara, with an extensive agroprocessing industry and a relatively diversified industrial sector (Carmody …

Malawi is located in the eastern part of southern Africa between latitude 9°22′ and 17°7′ South and between …

In examining agricultural vulnerability to climate change in South Africa, we see that an important factor is the … high levels of social vulnerability (Gbetibouo and Ringler 2009). South Africa is unique in southern Africa: from a …

Lesotho is located on the plateau of southern Africa, with altitudes ranging from about 1,400 meters to more than 3 …

Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is becoming increasingly risky due to extreme climate variability. In recent …

Africa, in general, is vulnerable to climate change, mostly due to its dependence on agriculture. Mozambique is a prime …