Related Publications: West Africa
Impact of market and population pressure on production, incomes and natural resources in the dryland savannas of West Africa
This paper introduces a modeling method which simulates a village's response to population and market pressure. The method combines a linear programming model with a biophysical model of soil condition and plant growth.
IFPRI Report
Commentary: Agriculture Can Give a Helping Hand to Cities; Roundtable Workshop Marks Beginning of Urban Food and Nutrition Study in Ghana; Research in North Africa and West Asia to Benefit Farmers on Fragile Lands; Ecoregional Mapping Helps Pinpoi
Measuring food insecurity
Defining and interpreting food security, and measuring it in reliable, valid and cost-effective ways, have proven to be stubborn problems facing researchers and programs intended to monitor food security risks.
Women: the key to food security
La mujer: la clave de la seguridad alimentaria
En este informe sobre política alimentaria se sintetizan las investigaciones en curso sobre la función que de sempeña la mujer para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria en el mundo en desarrollo.
Smallholder tree crops in Sierra Leone: Impacts on food consumption and nutrition
Tree crops such as coffee, cocoa, and oil palm have been promoted for many years in Sierra Leone.
Nutritional effects of commercialization of a woman's crop: Irrigated rice in The Gambia
The Gambia (West Africa) had a population of approximately 0.75 million and a total agricultural cultivated area of only 1,850 square kilometers in 1987-88.