A shift from agriculture to manufacturing was one of the hallmarks of job creation, poverty reduction, and rapid growth in low-income countries during the latter half of the 20th century.
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Sustained growth and improved governance in Africa’s agriculture sector are critical to meeting the continent’s development goals, including creating decent jobs for youth, nourishing growing cities with healthy foods, promoting resilience, and ca
Au cours des deux dernières décennies, l’Afrique a enregistré le plus fort taux de croissance dans l’agriculture.
Sustained growth and improved governance in Africa’s agriculture sector are critical to meeting the continent’s development goals, including creating decent jobs for youth, nourishing growing cities with healthy foods, promoting resilience, and ca
African agriculture is at an important crossroads.
Seed policies and regulatory reforms
In this chapter, we explore how policies, programs, and regulations related to seed and genetic resources are evolving across Africa, and whether these changes have the potential to improve farmers’ access to improved cultivars and quality seed.
This chapter highlights the emerging areas of market failure associated with agricultural mechanization and how SSA governments, including the Ghanaian government, have adapted their strategies over the years in attempting to overcome these market
The political economy of agricultural policy in Africa: Implications for agrifood system transformation
The intent of this chapter is, first, to review how these components of political economy analysis have affected past agricultural policy decisions and, then, to highlight key points for building a broader empirical research agenda around agrifood
The objectives of the 2020 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) are twofold. First, the report tracks past and current African agricultural policies, and evaluates their limitations and achievements.
In response to the low adoption of improved inputs, African governments have pursued various fertilizer promotion policies and programs.
Women’s land rights in Africa
2019 ReSAKSS Annual Trends and Outlook Report 45 Anew wave of land reforms has swept across a large number of developing countries since the millennium.
Executive summary [in Boosting growth to end hunger by 2025: The role of social protection]
The 2017-2018 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) takes an in-depth look at social protection in rural Africa to address these three questions, which are particularly relevant as Africa embarks on the implementation of the Malabo Declaration c
Targeting social safety nets using proxy means tests: Evidence from Egypt’s Takaful and Karama program
Chapter 10 uses Egypt as a case study to examine the effectiveness of proxy means test (PMT) targeting.
Designing social protection programs
The purpose of this chapter is to give policy makers insights into how to design cost-effective social protection programs.
The impact of humanitarian food assistance on household food security during conflict in Mali
The chapter is centered on assessing the impact of WFP’s food assistance on the food security and nutrition outcomes of rural households in the Mopti region of Mali.
Chapter 8 provides a comparative analysis of 48 graduation, livelihood, and cash transfer programs.
The impact of cash transfer programs in building resilience: Insight from African countries
Building on the existing literature, this chapter synthesizes the key findings of the From Protection to Production (PtoP) project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which studies the impact of SCT (social cash t
In line with the role of the ATOR as the official monitoring and evaluation report for CAADP, Chapter 12 monitors progress on CAADP indicators outlined in the CAADP Results Framework 2015–2025.
Agriculture and social protection: The experience of Ethiopia’s productive safety net program
In this chapter, critical lessons and insights regarding the effects of social protection on agriculture are drawn from an assessment of the benefits and challenges of linking social protection with agriculture using the experiences of and empiric