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agribusiness companies in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, and South Africa. The study was conducted in the context of … anticipated dramatic changes in Africa’s food consumption patterns over coming decades, driven by rising incomes and urban … (1) except for South Africa, companies predominantly employ O-level graduates but (in all countries including South …
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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been rapidly urbanizing for many years. Current estimates from the UN are that urban … population growth in East Africa is over 4% per year, while in Southern Africa, which has higher urbanization levels, the growth … is estimated at 2%. Overall in East and Southern Africa (ESA), urban populations in the region are growing about 3% per …
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out during 2007/08 in nine of Africa’s main cotton producing countries. The purpose of the study was to draw practical … and weaknesses of the different types of sectors operating in Africa, the likely effects of specific types of policy …
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fertilizer is a critical yet still-underused input for improving productivity and food security in Africa. Second, politicians …
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Without renewed attention to sustained agricultural productivity growth, most small farms in developing countries will become increasingly unviable economic and social units. Sustained agricultural productivity growth and poverty reduction will require progress on a number of fronts, most...
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Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate … agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and … agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones …
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The development of agricultural commodity exchanges in Africa has become an increasingly popular strategy for …
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Improving farmers’ access to markets is widely recognized as a major development challenge. A review of the literature suggests that indicators of market access may bear little relationship to the specific processes of interest and hence provide misguided evidence of the impacts of improved...
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Rural poverty rates in Zambia have remained very high, at 80%, over the past decade and a half, whilst urban poverty rates have declined, from 49% in 1991 to 34% in 2006. Redressing this high rural poverty rate remains a government priority in the National Development Programs. However,...
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Kenya has been recognized globally as maize success story since the 1970s. Released on the eve of independence, Kenya’s first maize hybrid diffused faster than did hybrids in the U.S Corn Belt during the 1930s-1940s. In recent decades, policy researchers have lamented that earlier gains in...
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