Despite significant strides in reducing poverty during recent decades, there are still about 1.2 billion extremely poor people in the world.

L’économie malienne est fortement dominée par le secteur agricole ; 70 % de la population active travaille dans ce secteur et l’agriculture représente près de la moitié du produit intérieur brut agricole (PIBA) (FAO 2009 ; Banque mondiale 2009).

Mali’s agricultural sector plays a dominant role in the national economy. It accounts for close to half of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 70 percent of the active population.

Information is fragmented on the prevalence of aflatoxins, a variety of mycotoxin, in the maize value chain in Kenya and in the groundnut value chain in Mali.

This paper investigates differences in household production and consumption among small- and large-scale irrigators to assess whether the scale of an irrigation project increases household welfare in Mali.

There are no easy solutions to the ongoing food price crisis. Maize and wheat prices doubled between 2003 and 2008, and the price of rice doubled in the first four months of 2008, rising 33 percent in a single day.

"Significant changes in the agricultural sector in northern Mali suggest that irrigation has made a large contribution to welfare increases over the past eight years.

"This paper reviews the structure and performance of the sorghum and millet seed sector in Mali.

This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique data set collected from northern Mali.