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FAGRO Seeks Partnership for Increased Food Production
The National Food and Agricultural Show is looking to improve collaboration and partnership with smallholder farmers with the purpose of totally transforming the agricultural sector. This involves intensifying investments in the annual event with the support of government and other development partners. It is hoped that this will empower farmers to increase production, productivity and quality and facilitate access to markets. Mr. Sulley Adam, the 2013 Planning Committee Chairman of FAGRO, made this know at the annual FAGRO stakeholders meeting in Accra. The meeting provided stakeholders with the platform to discuss ways to make agriculture more profitable and rewarding for smallholder farmers.
Daily Graphic, Saturday, February 9, 2013. No. 19071, page 38.
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Reports
Global Poverty Reduction: The Last 20 Years and the Next 20 Years
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Policy Paper Series
At a global level, indicators for income poverty, gender and water in terms of reduction are ‘on track’ whereas nutrition, primary completion and child mortality are considered ‘off-track’ with maternal mortality being very ‘off-track’. The incidence of income poverty at $1.25 (MDG 1a) has fallen from 43 percent in 1990 to 22 percent in 2008 and is projected to fall to 16 percent in 2015 (according to Chen and Ravallion, 2012; World Bank, 2012:3). However, if China is removed, the total number of people under $1.25 has barely changed since 1990 while the number of people under the $2 poverty line has slightly increased. This paper is a contribution to the post-2015 discussion on what may follow the Millennium Development Goals when they expire. The paper does the following: (i) Looks backwards at trends in poverty reduction during the MDG period (1990 – present) and the impacts of the MDGs; (ii) Looks forward and makes projections for levels and patterns of poverty over the next 10-20 years and discusses emergent issues including the ‘new geography of poverty’. [more]
Addressing the “Wicked Problem” of Input Subsidy Programs in Africa
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2013) volume 00, number 00, pp. 1-9
This article reviews and critically assesses evidence on input subsidy programs implemented in selected countries over the past decade in Africa. We believe that input subsidies should be considered wicked problems because of the indeterminacy and difficulty surrounding how they are evaluated. Main findings from the current body of literature are that input subsidies provide some measurable but relatively small positive benefit to recipient households’ wellbeing. In addition, most studies find that subsidized inputs crowd out commercial input purchases, mitigating the extent to which subsidy programs contribute to total fertilizer use and crop production. African governments may wish to carefully consider the benefits and distributional effects of input subsidy programs relative to other uses of scarce public resources. [more]
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