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View ArticleEthiopia: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
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View ArticleBilan des capacités de R&D agricole nationale en Afrique au sud du Sahara
Rapport de synthèse ASTI Ce document vise à contribuer au programme d’action en cours pour le développement de l’Afrique au sud du Sahara. Le rapport 2013 sur l’agriculture et les systèmes...
View ArticleGabon: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
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View ArticleGabon: Fiche d’information sur les indicateurs de la R&D agricole
On note depuis 2000 une chute drastique des dépenses de R&D agricole gabonaises : en tant que pourcentage du PIB agricole (0,09 % en 2011), elles figurent parmi les plus faibles de l’Afrique.À la...
View ArticleThe Gambia: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
Despite substantial fluctuations in yearly spending patterns, agricultural research spending in The Gambia rose by 25 percent during 2008–2011, primarily due to increased donor funding.As of 2011, only...
View ArticleGhana: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
Public agricultural R&D spend-ing continued to increase during the 2008–2011 period. Growth was strongest at Ghana’s universities, although the CSIR institutes and CRIG also reported increases in...
View ArticleGuinea-Bissau: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
In 2011, Guinea-Bissau spent just 0.02 percent of its agricultural GDP on agricultural research—by far the lowest level in Africa (and the rest of the developing world).INPA is the nation’s only...
View ArticleGuiné-Bissau: Ficha Informativa de Indicadores de I&D Agrária
Em 2011 a Guiné-Bissau gastou apenas 0,02% do seu PIB agrário em investigação agrária — sendo de longe o nível mais baixo em África (e no resto dos países em desenvolvimento).O INPAé a única...
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This study (i) examines the implementation of recent agricultural finance policies and incentives associated with the Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and...
View ArticleHeterogeneous preferences and the effects of incentives in promoting...
Malawi faces significant challenges in meeting its future food security needs because there is little scope for increasing production by simply expanding the area under cultivation. One potential...
View ArticleThe effects of political competition on rural land
Evidence from Pakistan Can more vigorous political competition significantly raise rural land values, or contribute to more robust land rental markets? Exploiting exogenous variation in the national...
View ArticleInvestigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and...
This paper is one of the four diagnostic studies initiated to better understand the black box of public expenditure statistics and how it varies across countries. Particularly, this paper analyzes how...
View ArticleRural and agricultural mechanization
A history of the spread of small engines in selected asian countries The past 50 years witnessed a remarkable spread of smaller-scale rural mechanization in some regions of South Asia, mostly...
View ArticleAgricultural R&D in West Asia and North Africa
Recent Investment and Capacity Trends West Asia and North Africa (WANA) is a highly diverse region, encompassing both high-income Gulf countries and a large group of non-oil-producing upper and lower...
View ArticleSynopsis: An analysis of trends and determinants of child undernutrition in...
This study uses two rounds of the Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey (EDHS) to statistically analyze patterns and trends in undernutrition (child growth) in Ethiopia over the period 2000 to 2011. In...
View ArticleThe Bali Agreement: An assessment from the perspective of developing countries
This paper discusses the different agreements and decisions reached in the Bali Ministerial Conference and the potential implications for the post-Bali work program. The results of the Bali Ministerial...
View ArticleSeasonality and household diets in Ethiopia
The paper revisits seasonality by assessing how the quantity and quality of diets vary across agricultural seasons in rural and urban Ethiopia. Using unique nationally representative household level...
View ArticleCereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia
Cereal production has exhibited unprecedented growth in Ethiopia, leading to important welfare improvements in the country. However, it is not well understood what the drivers have been of this growth...
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