Conference and Workshop Papers

Despite the fact that agricultural R&D spending in SSA increased by more than 20 percent during 2001–08, overall investment levels in most countries are still well below the levels required to sustain agricultural R&D needs. In 2008, SSA ...

Evidence suggests that changing priorities and strategies among bilateral, multilateral, and philanthropic donors are channeling more resources into agricultural R&D. The trend is a welcome reversal of the downturns in funding for ...

The scale of innovation required to face up to Africa’s challenges, more than ever, will involve multiple actors within and beyond the agricultural sector to coordinate their learning and action in order to improve management of natural resources ...

This proceedings report compiles the papers and written commentaries prepared for the regional workshop on “Food and Nutrition Security Policies for West Africa: Implementation Issues and Research Agendas.” The workshop gathered ...

This paper first reviews the potential pathways through which HIV/AIDS affects nutrition, food security, and the livelihoods of households, particularly those dependent on agriculture. With regard to nutrition, HIV/AIDS significantly impacts ...

Growth in numbers of agricultural researchers has accelerated by roughly 20 percent since 2000. In some countries, this growth resulted from long-term recruitment bans being lifted, whereas in other countries it was due to increased involvement ...

The author answers this important question in the paper and concludes that strategies are possible to enhance the micronutrient content and bioavailability of plant-based staple and other micronutrient-containing foods in whole diets. She states ...

The purpose of this discussion is to highlight some key features and guiding principles of assistance to those engaged in forming, fortifying, and supporting professional capacity building networks in the agricultural sector. The type of networks ...

Despite some recent improvement, agricultural productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind just about every other region of the world. While there are important data challenges in measuring trends in agricultural productivity, most studies ...

This review points to three major conclusions. First, Africa has immense potential in commercial agricultural production but has missed out significantly in the commodity boom of the early 2000s. Low productivity due to low investment in ...

Food legumes in general contain appreciable quantities of iron and other minerals. Although legumes are often cited as a complement to cereals in terms of amino acid content, they also make a particularly important contribution to micronutrient ...

Comparing and contrasting the three studies reviewed in this paper produced lessons in several areas, including the conceptual approaches and methods used, the policy implications that resulted, and the future subregional priorities for ...

Considerable progress has been made over the past decade in establishing a supranational structure for agricultural research in Sub-Saharan Africa that is driven from within. An Africa-owned policy framework has been put in place, an innovation ...

In this paper, the authors describe a strategy of breeding plants that enrich themselves, that load high amounts of minerals and vitamins into their edible parts, has the potential for substantially reducing recurrent costs that are associated ...

While it would be easy to feel overwhelmed by the many constraints facing African farmers, Brazil and Thailand provide important lessons about how these constraints can be overcome. In these two countries, government played a vital role by ...

Innovation is an essential ingredient to future success in AR4D. The key challenge for AR4D managers is to learn how to identify and generate commercially relevant innovation along the value chain, and to do this consistently. With greater ...

L’ampleur et la gravité des répercussions de l’épidémie de VIH/SIDA en Afrique subsaharienne sont effrayantes: la maladie a décimé les pays de la région et à sérieusement compromis la nutrition et la sécurité alimentaire de millions de ménages. ...