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Data on food insufficiency status in South Africa: Insight from the South Africa General Household Survey
Food insecurity or insufficiency, among other factors, is triggered by structural inequalities. Food insecurity is an inflexible problematic situation in South Africa.
Welfare effects of weather variability: Multi-country evidence from Africa south of the Sahara
Climate change and weather variability pose serious threats to food and nutrition security as well as ecosystems, especially when livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources.
Farmers’ perceptions of crop pest severity in Nigeria are associated with landscape, agronomic and socio-economic factors
This study investigates the determinants of farmers’ crop choice decisions, crop area diversification, and income diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative panel data for Nigeria and Uganda.
Correlated non-classical measurement errors, ‘second best’ policy inference and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture
We show analytically and empirically that non-classical measurement errors in the two key variables in a hypothesized relationship can bias the estimated relationship between them in any direction.
Adoption of the trinity of practices known commonly today as conservation agriculture (CA)—maintaining soil cover, reducing tillage, and enhancing soil nitrogen through legumes—is a critical process to the management of erosion in rural landscapes