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sectors, including agriculture, education and health. Yet despite broad agreement on the multisectoral nature of the global … urbanization and travel times to urban centers, affect child nutrition and dietary outcomes. In this paper we study these … negative associations between nutrition indicators and rural livelihoods, but only moderately strong associations with …
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) policy synergies between different sectors (agriculture, nutrition, health, water supply and sanitation, education) should be … security, improved nutrition, and health. We conclude that the evidence remains insufficient to draw broad conclusions due to … that should be taken into account in irrigation development to address nutrition and gender gaps with a focus on Africa …
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environment and increased investments in agriculture at a time when African governments and donors have been rallying to increase … their support to agriculture. Is African agriculture undergoing a new and sustained recovery after many decades of stagnant … policy environment and increased attention to agriculture has had a major effect on overall productivity growth based on …
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public spending in the agricultural sector, considering expenditures on agriculture as a whole versus expenditures on …
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The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been …
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This paper looks at the prioritization of agricultural value chains (VCs) for the allocation of R&D resources that maximize development outcomes (poverty, growth, jobs, and diets). Considering that growth in VCs affects those various outcomes differently, as expansion pathways result in the...
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This analysis explores the relationship between agricultural R&D investments and rural poverty reduction, and the prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It uses a panel data set of internationally comparable poverty dis-aggregated by urban and rural areas, country level...
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