Policymakers in Nigeria and other countries in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) are relying on agriculture to generate employment for the growing youth population.
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Agricultural credit is an important instrument for improving farm productivity, the welfare of farm households, and their resilience to weather-related shocks.
Globally, poor-quality diets are the leading cause of all forms of malnutrition, and the simultaneous occurrence of both under- and overconsumption within the same populations and even within the same households is increasingly common.
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Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program: Impacts and recommendations from the second round evaluation
Egypt’s national cash transfer program, Takaful, and its sister program Karama covered 17 million poor beneficiaries as of 2022, about 16 percent of the Egyptian population.
The new Kenyan government faces a complex domestic and global environment, and it is widely expected to address key food and agricultural challenges with a new set of policies and programs.
Market system development (MSD) approaches aim to address market failures and frictions that frequently impede adoption of modern yield-enhancing agricultural practices in sub-Saharah Africa.
Malnutrition, largely attributable to poor diets among both the rich and poor, presents a growing challenge in Nigeria.
The performance of agrifood value chains of vital importance for smallholder farmers in developing countries.
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Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations
Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015.
In 2000, the member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signaled their commitment to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger and poverty by 2015 (MDG1).
À partir du milieu des années 90, l’Afrique a entamé sa plus longue période de croissance positive et soutenue du revenu par habitant depuis les années 60.
Agriculture and rural development must play a central role in stimulating economic growth, reducing poverty, and improving food and nutrition security in Africa.
Starting in the mid-1990s, Africa embarked upon its longest period of sustained, positive per capita income growth since the 1960s.
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Social protection
Social protection involves policies and programs that protect people against risk and vulnerability, mitigate the impacts of shocks, and support people who suffer from chronic incapacities to secure basic livelihoods.