Uptake of Improved Technologies in the Semi-arid Tropics of West Africa: Why is Agricultural Transformation Lagging Behind? [PDF]
During the last 3 decades, donors and governments have invested in the development and dissemination of new technologies in the semi-arid tropics of West Africa.
Bantilan, Ma Cynthia, Ndjeunga, Jupiter
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, 1983 Meeting: West African Association of Agricultural Economists, Biennial Conference, 5th, 7-11 Dec. 1983, Abidjan, CIThe table of contents for this item can be shared with the requester.
Fotzo Tagne, P.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Parasitic weeds of the family Orobanchaceae are among the most damaging constraints on food production in the tropics, draining water and nutrients from their hosts and threatening the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers. Yellow witchweed (Alectra vogelii) can destroy entire legume harvests across sub‐Saharan Africa, where these crops are a ...
Hildah Kithinji +2 more
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Investigating the Sources of Agricultural Growth in Africa: Factor Accumulation, Total Factor Productivity, and Technology Absorption [PDF]
This paper investigates sources and determinants of agricultural growth in Africa, concentrating on the growth path during the last three decades. The analysis employs the broader framework provided by empirical growth literature and recent developments ...
Nkamleu, Guy Blaise
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Assessing the Climate-Smartness of the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP): What can we learn from Benin, Guinea, Niger, Togo and Chad projects? [PDF]
, 2020 This info note summarizes the findings from participatory assessments of the climate-smartness of World Bank funded West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP)”.
Sadate, Amadou +8 more
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Regional Sustainability Assessment Under Risk and Uncertainty: A Water–Energy–Food Based Framework
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regional sustainability assessment requires integrated structures that can examine the interactions between Water–Energy–Food (WEF) systems, socio‐economic risk conditions, and performance outcomes under uncertainty. This study proposes a multidimensional framework that combines a suitability index, composite sustainability indicators ...
Murat Oturakci
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West African technical review: professional magazine for industrial & business management June 1978 [PDF]
, 1978 This is the West African technical review: professional magazine for industrial & business management June 1978.■ Nigeria Hotels Ltd : Nigeria Hotels Limited, Nigeria's foremost hotel group, are celebrating their Golden Jubilee this month to commemorate ...
West African technical
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Contract Farming and Children's Education: Evidence From Maize Producers in Ghana
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming (CF) has continued to proliferate in the small farm sector of developing countries. While its effects on smallholders across welfare outcomes such as income and food security have been well documented, there are growing concerns about its broader social implications especially on children.
Francis E. Ndip +2 more
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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, 2023 The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program was initiated by the African Development Bank (AfDB) as part of its Feed Africa Initiative.
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation
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