This paper examines the role of postsecondary agricultural education and training (AET) in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the region’s agricultural innovation systems. Specifically, the paper looks at how AET in sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to agricultural development by...

Ethiopian agriculture is changing as new actors, relationships, and policies influence the ways in which small-scale, resource-poor farmers access and use information and knowledge in their agricultural production decisions. Although these changes suggest new opportunities for smallholders, too...

This paper examines the role of postsecondary agricultural education and training (AET) in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the region's agricultural innovation systems. Specifically, the paper looks at how AET in sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to agricultural development by strengthening...

Within the nation’s 50 largest cities, the top-earning households (those making more than 95 percent of all households) earned 11.6 times what households at the bottom earned (those making more than the bottom 20 percent of households), Brookings Institution researchers have found. Overall,...

More than 290,000 people work in the Texas oil and gas industry, about five times the number in Oklahoma, which has the second-highest total among the states. Still, Texas oil and gas production workers make up only 3 percent of private-sector employment in the state