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Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015:
Fan, Shenggen; Johnson, Michael; Saurkar, Anuja; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate the agricultural spending that will be required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty and growth-expenditure elasticities to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038121
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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Calzadilla, Alvaro; Zhu, Tingju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Approximately 80 percent of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa continue to depend on the agricultural sector for their … livelihoods, but-unlike in other regions of the world-agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by very low yields due to … agroecological features, poor access to services, lack of knowledge and inputs, and low levels of investment in infrastructure and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561565
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Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Calzadilla, Alvaro; Zhu, Tingju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Two possible adaptation options to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The … first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area … than an expansion of irrigated area. Even though Sub-Saharan Africa is not a key contributor to global food production or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967176
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Female participation in African agricultural research and higher education: New insights
Beintema, Nienke M.; Di Marcantonio, Federica - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
representation of women in the field of agricultural science and technology (S&T) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Female scientists … research and higher education agencies in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first study of its kind to present … in South Africa, Mozambique, and Botswana (32, 35, and 41 percent, respectively). • The female share of students enrolled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478780
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Strengthening agricultural education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa from an innovation systems perspective: Case studies of Ethiopia and Mozambique
Davis, Kristin; Ekboir, Javier; Mekasha, Wendmsyamregne; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038088
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Income growth and gender bias in childhood mortality in developing countries:
Ueyama, Mika - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
girls in South Asia; in contrast, no such anti-female gender bias exists in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, this paper … correlation between gender biases in child health outcomes and income growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. While previous studies focused … found a new dimension of regional contrast between Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions." from Authors' Abstract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038146
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai (contributor); Nelson, Gerald C. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145651
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Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy challenges
Dorosh, Paul A.; Rashid, Shahidur - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other experts, tell the story of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation. The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253099
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To trade or not to trade: non-separable farm household models in partial and general equilibrium.
Lofgren, Hans; Robinson, Sherman - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
Empirical evidence and microeconomic theory suggest that, in many settings, farm household production and consumption decisions are "non-separable." Non-separability may have important policy implications, including lack of response or threshold effects when incentives change. This paper extends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863971
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Socioeconomic considerations in biosafety decisionmaking: Methods and implementation
Horna, Daniela (contributor); Zambrano, Patricia (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Despite the ongoing controversy over their use, genetically modified (GM) crops have progressively grown in popularity and are now planted in approximately 160 million hectares in 29 countries. In the discussions of biosafety regulations for GM crops and whether to approve such crops for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765168