Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment

Recent trends in agricultural growth and food security in Eastern and Central Africa (ECA) have been discouraging. With very low labor productivity, yields, and growth rates, agriculture is unable to keep up with population growth or achieve the type of pro-poor growth needed to reduce poverty drama...

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Autores principales: Fan, Shenggen, Nyange, David, Zhang, Xiaobo
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160498
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author Fan, Shenggen
Nyange, David
Zhang, Xiaobo
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Zhang, Xiaobo
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description Recent trends in agricultural growth and food security in Eastern and Central Africa (ECA) have been discouraging. With very low labor productivity, yields, and growth rates, agriculture is unable to keep up with population growth or achieve the type of pro-poor growth needed to reduce poverty dramatically.Yet agriculture accounts for about half of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) and is the main source of livelihood for the majority of the population. Behind this gloomy picture, however, lies agriculture’s potential to be the engine for growth in ECA. What do the ECA countries need to do to effectively exploit the potential of agriculture and meet the needs of their burgeoning populations?
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spelling CGSpace1604982025-11-06T04:42:17Z Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment Fan, Shenggen Nyange, David Zhang, Xiaobo poverty reduction agricultural research agricultural extension structural change roads Recent trends in agricultural growth and food security in Eastern and Central Africa (ECA) have been discouraging. With very low labor productivity, yields, and growth rates, agriculture is unable to keep up with population growth or achieve the type of pro-poor growth needed to reduce poverty dramatically.Yet agriculture accounts for about half of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) and is the main source of livelihood for the majority of the population. Behind this gloomy picture, however, lies agriculture’s potential to be the engine for growth in ECA. What do the ECA countries need to do to effectively exploit the potential of agriculture and meet the needs of their burgeoning populations? 2006 2024-11-21T09:50:56Z 2024-11-21T09:50:56Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160498 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis Fan, Shenggen; Nyange, David; Zhang, Xiaobo. Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment. Issue brief addendum. 45. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160498
spellingShingle poverty reduction
agricultural research
agricultural extension
structural change
roads
Fan, Shenggen
Nyange, David
Zhang, Xiaobo
Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment
title Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment
title_full Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment
title_fullStr Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment
title_full_unstemmed Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment
title_short Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment
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topic poverty reduction
agricultural research
agricultural extension
structural change
roads
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