Addressing global hunger and food insecurity requires immediate and unified efforts due to their broad nature and the potential for significant escalation in certain areas. This study assessed household food security status of women in the Ussa Local...
Land in Africa is more than a resource. It is the foundation of identity, food security and opportunity. The vast majority of rural land across the continent remains undocumented with varied levels of tenure security. Without proof of rights, farmers...
Production and productivity developments in South Africa have regional consequences: South Africa’s agricultural economy accounted for 43.1% of the agricultural GDP of southern Africa in 2009. Here we present and discuss newly constructed long-run da...
Traditional agriculture in Sudan occupies 60% of the cultivated land and employs 65% of the population engaged in agricultural production, but yields are low and productivity is threatened by drought and civil conflicts. Traditional agriculture has t...
The problems of pastoralist livestock marketing systems in East Africa are well-documented in the literature. They include poor transport infrastructure, inadequate market access and frequent rejection of animals at certain markets. Thus far, few stu...
This study estimates inter-fuel substitution elasticities and long-run substitution elasticities between energy and non-energy aggregate inputs used by production sectors in Malawi. All fuels are Morishima substitutes but there are significant sector...
Uganda’s National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), established in 2001, is a demand-driven extension program for developing farmer organizations and improving farmer production and welfare. The program is expected to be 50% client funded after...
Malian farmers have been cultivating millet and sorghum for millennia, but they are slow to adopt and develop modern varieties because it is difficult to observe the difference in yields in their fields, given the challenging local growing conditions...
Cet article vise à évaluer le taux d'adoption actuel et potentiel des variétés de riz NERICA (New Rice for Africa) et identifier les déterminants de leur connaissance et adoption au Burkina Faso. Des enquêtes ont été menées en 2009, auprès de 300 pro...
Using count models, this paper assesses the intensity of land and water management practices among smallholder maize farmers in Ghana and the factors driving the number of practices adopted. Farmers’ use of fertiliser, non-burning of farmland and plo...
The absence of an agricultural census in Nigeria means that samples for surveys to estimate agricultural production are obtained from a non-comprehensive, non-representative set of farms. Therefore, aggregate production data quality is questioned. Th...
Tracking agricultural expenditure in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in a consistent and harmonised manner is important, not only in the context of the multilateral spending commitments made under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Devel...