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Revitalising African agriculture through innovative business models and organisational arrangements : promising developments in the traditional crops sector. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Within the last four years, a number of high profile reports outlining new strategies for pulling African agriculture out of its current impasse have emerged.
Ochieng, Cosmas C. M.
core   +4 more sources

TAAT builds resilience for maize productivity through scale out of Fortenza Duo seed treatment technology: TAAT news Vol. 2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The African Development Bank launched the Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) programme as part of the Bank’s Feed Africa strategy that is harnessing elite scientific research/technologies and disseminating at scale to African ...
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation
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Benefits of the West Africa agricultural productivity programme on fisherfolks in Kainji Lake Basin, Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The study assessed the benefits of West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP) through inputs, training and services received; attitude; satisfaction; and constraints of respondents in WAAPP.
Godfrey Onyekachukwu Nwabeze   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Mainstreaming CSA into the West African Agricultural Productivity Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Since its launch in October 2017, a 2-year project of 2,550,230 US$ funded by the West African Agricultural Productivity Program facilitated by CORAF/WECARD entitled “Capacitating Stakeholders in Using Climate Information for Enhanced Resilience in the ...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
core   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Price Transmission and Leadership in the Global Poultry Market: Results From Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil and the United States account for more than 40% of global poultry exports, with China and South Korea among their major destination markets. This study examines price transmission and market linkages between Brazil and the United States using monthly poultry export price data from January 1990 to December 2024. It also assesses which of
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to African conditions: TAAT news Vol. 3

open access: yes, 2023
The African Development Bank launched the Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) programme as part of the Bank’s Feed Africa strategy that is harnessing elite scientific research/technologies and disseminating at scale to African ...
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation
core  

Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heat Stress in Quail: Impacts on Health and Productivity, and Mitigation Strategies

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Heat stress disrupts physiological homeostasis in quail, inducing oxidative stress, immune dysregulation, and metabolic imbalance, which impair growth, reproduction, product quality, and welfare. Integrating nutritional, environmental, and genetic–epigenetic strategies enhances thermotolerance, sustains productivity, and supports climate‐smart quail ...
T. A. Eletu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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