Agricultural Issues
Prioritize Smallholder Agriculture Development, Farmers Tell Government
Smallholder farmers have asked government to prioritize the development of the agricultural sector if it wants to reduce poverty and improve food security in the country. [more]
Ghana gets Agriculture Support from the US
The United States has provided $1.4 million to improve research in Ghana's agriculture industry. The money through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be used to recruit a technical advisor, train staff, and provide equipment to the newly set up Agriculture and Agribusiness Unit in the ministry of Finance. [more]
Reports
On the Institutional Details that Mediate the Impact of Cash Crops on Food Crop Intensification: The Case of Cotton
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s 2013 AAEA & CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 4-6, 2013.
The surge in basic food commodity prices in 2007/08 and again in 2011, have led to a renewed focus among governments and donors on agricultural growth, especially in staple food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is widely agreed that smallholder-led agricultural growth would contribute most to improved food security and reduced poverty. Yet, how to achieve broader and more sustainable access by smallholder farmers to productivity enhancing inputs for food crop production remains a largely unsolved riddle. In light of the great institutional diversity across cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, this study investigates whether cotton market structures can be used to spur the intensification of smallholder food production. [more]
African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Who benefits, who loses?
EcoNexus Report. June 2013
This brief report looks at how governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in Africa (currently in Mozambique and Tanzania) to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of hectares in order to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets. [more]
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