Contrairement aux prévisions communément admises quant à l’aggravation du déclin économique de l’Afrique, une récente étude présente une vision alternative plus positive de l’avenir de ce continent.
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In contrast to popular predictions of Africa’s worsening economic decline, recent research supports an alternative and more positive vision of Africa’s future.
Valuing the environment in developing countries
In this paper, we employ the choice experiment method to estimate local citizens’ valuation of a public intervention that proposes to improve the quality of an important environmental resource, namely, the Ganges River in India.
Childcare and work
"This study investigates the effects of childcare on work and earnings of mothers in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City.
Building capacities for evidence and outcome-based food policy planning and implementation
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is an Africawide framework for revitalizing agriculture and rural development in order to accelerate economic growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and nutrition se
Agricultural strategy development in West Africa
"Participatory approaches are an increasingly prominent technique for designing agricultural strategies within Sub-Saharan Africa.
Identifying opportunities in Ghana’s agriculture
"Recent increases in cereals prices raise questions about agricultural priorities in Ghana.
Bridging research, policy, and practice in African agriculture
Policy research on African agriculture is long on prescriptions for what needs to be done to spur agricultural growth but short on how such prescriptions might be implemented in practice. What explains this state of affairs?
Die vielschichtigen Ursachen der gegenwärtigen Krise im Bereich der Nahrungsmittelproduktion und Landwirtschaft erfordern eine umfassende globale Antwort.
Gender norms are an important constraint to increasing agricultural productivity.
Improving research-policy linkages in Nigeria
When there is disconnect between research and policy, high quality research-based information can be produced without impact on policy dialogue and action.
L‘envolée des prix alimentaires au cours des deux dernières années a suscité de vives inquiétudes par rapport à la situation alimentaire et nutritionnelle des pauvres dans les pays en développement, par rapport à l’inflation ou encore, dans certai
"The sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situation of poor people in developing countries, about inflation, and-in some countries-about civil unrest.
The majority of Nigeria's smallholder farmers are often too poor to employ modern tools, such as tractors and plows, even with substantial government support.
Although many millions of people have exited poverty in recent decades, much of the reduction in poverty has benefited people living close to the poverty line rather than those at the very bottom of the income distribution.
En 1996, Brasil empleó más de 5.000 investigadores equivalentes de tiempo completo e invirtió más de $1.000 millones (dólares internacionales de 1993) en I&D agropecuario, casi la mitad del gasto total de América Latina en investigación agrope
Policy options and their potential effects on Moroccan small farmers and the poor facing increased world food prices
"This study evaluates the potential impact of the recent rise in world food prices on the Moroccan economy and possible policy options to respond to it.
This paper argues that the largely unrealized potential of agricultural science and technology (S&T) in promoting growth and poverty reduction in developing countries results from deeply rooted incompatibility among policy environments, instit