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Un plein panier d'aliments pour l'Afrique d'ici 2020
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Strengthening Africa’s capacity to design and implement strategies for food and nutrition security
"Among the capacity-strengthening challenges the region faces are inadequate in-country capacity, institutional weaknesses, lack of multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving, expatriates’ limited incountry experience, poor governance, and fa
Cómo lograr que la liberalización del commercio agricola favorezca a los pobres
Este informe se centra en cinco medidas que deben adoptarse para que la liberalización del comercio agrícola favorezca a los pobres, y enfatiza la necesidad de combinar la reforma de la política comercial con inversiones en desarrollo para crear t
Assuring food and nutrition security in the time of AIDs
"The interactions between HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition insecurity are becoming clearer as research fills knowledge gaps.
Assessing micro-finance services in agricultural sector development
A Case Study of Semi-Formal Financial Institutions in Tanzania Background In Tanzania, as in other parts of Africa, lack of credit severely constrains sustainable agricultural development.
Recent growth in African cassava
According to the authors, Cassava serves as a staple food for 200 million Africans, second only to maize in its calorie contribution.
Generalizing from past successes
Past successes in African agriculture can point the way to promising avenues for achieving similar success in the future.
The changing policy environment facing African agriculture
According to the authors, "Both national and international economic environments have changed substantially in the past decade and a half.
African agriculture: past performance, future imperatives
African farmers and agricultural policymakers have achieved a series of significant successes in agricultural development, although these successes are still inadequate in number and scale to counter Sub-Saharan Africa's daunting demographic chall