This paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people's unemployment in Africa through … agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that … that seek to engage young people with agriculture must be more realistic, rooted in more context-specific economic and …

-level household datasets from a range of countries in Africa, we examine the drivers of agricultural risks, while exploring the role … to their non-farm counterparts. We demonstrate that the probability of experiencing risks related to agriculture is … variations across contexts and countries in Africa. We also find that farm households witnessed important reductions in their …

Africa and beyond would all further stimulate exports of processed agriculture. While essential, expansion of these exports … returns from African agriculture and for increasing its overall exports. Policy reforms such as reductions in the tariff … escalation facing Africa, improvements in the productivity of agricultural processing, and reductions in trade barriers within …

combined with the absence of major technological change in agriculture and any significant structural transformation of the …

Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program. We show that the implementation of this program …

The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than non-agriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … headcount poverty in low-income and resource-rich countries (including those in sub-Saharan Africa), at least when societies are …