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Agricultural growth trends and outlook report: Trends in agricultural sector performance, growth and poverty in Malawi por Matchaya, Greenwell C., Phiri, Alexander, Chilonda, Pius, Musaba, Emmanuel

“…They are: i) the CAADP implementation process; ii) public spending and investment indicators; iii) output indicators (agricultural technology, diffusion and human capital indicators; iv) agricultural sector performance indicators (agricultural production and trade indicators; v) macro and socioeconomic indicators (welfare indicators); and vi) agricultural development strategies, policies and/or plans. …”
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Agricultural growth and poverty in Mozambique: Technical analysis in support of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) por Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James, Uaiene, Rafael, Mazunda, John

“…In this study we calibrate a CGE model to Mozambique’s newest social accounting matrix (SAM) to consider economywide growth, poverty, and nutrition impacts under alternative agricultural growth scenarios. Scenarios are compared over the period 2009–2019, which coincides with the implementation period of the Strategic Plan for Agricultural Development (PEDSA), Mozambique’s embodiment of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP). …”
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Boosting investment in agriculture research in Africa: Building a case for increased investment in agricultural research in Africa por Stads, Gert-Jan, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Beintema, Nienke

“…In 2016, Africa invested just 0.39 percent of its agricultural GDP (AgGDP) in agricultural R&D, down from 0.54 percent in 2000. …”
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Zambia: Recent developments in agricultural research por Flaherty, Kathleen, Mwala, Mick S.

“…A period of growth in the mid-1990s was then followed by another period of contraction, up through 2006, primarily due to a government-sector hiring freeze imposed from 2002 until 2007. …”
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Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies por Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena, Johnson, Michael E., Takeshima, Hiroyuki

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Climate change effects on agriculture in Tajikistan por Khakimov, Parviz, Aliev, Jovidon, Thomas, Timothy S., Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Pechtl, Sarah, Dunston, Shahnila

“…Tajikistan’s Agri-Food System and Sustainable Development Program (ASDP) for the period up to 2030 defined climate change as one of four key challenges to the development of agriculture and food systems. …”
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Adapting Philippine agriculture to climate change por Rosegrant, Mark W., Sombilla, Mercedita A., Perez, Nicostrato D., Pradesha, Angga, Thomas, Timothy S.

“…This collection of essays provides a wealth of information and analysis about the Philippine economy and the role of agriculture and economic policy in it. The Philippine experience has been quite different from the highly successful Asian economies, with a long period of low growth until the turn of the century and only then greater success. …”
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Linking agriculture to nutrition: The evolution of policy por Fan, Shenggen, Yosef, Sivan, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…Policymakers can learn from the country lessons and experiences in agriculture and nutrition policy.This paper provides one of the only overviews of global policy on agriculture and nutrition during the period 2010–2020.…”
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Seed, fertilizer, and agricultural extension in Ethiopia por Spielman, David J., Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Alemu, Dawit

“…Over the past two decades, decisionmakers in Ethiopia have pursued a range of policies and investments to boost agricultural production and productivity, particularly with respect to the food staple crops that are critical to reducing poverty in the country. …”
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Exploring the agriculture-nutrition disconnect in India por Gillespie, Stuart, Kadiyala, Suneetha

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Mali: Recent developments in agricultural research por Stads, Gert-Jan, Maïga, Aliou

“…Following a period of steady growth that lasted from the mid-1980s to the turn of the millennium (Stads and Kouriba 2004), total agricultural R&D spending levels in Mali have since exhibited an erratic trend. …”
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Mozambique [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture] por Thurlow, James

“…The national poverty rate remained virtually unchanged during this period (Mozambique, MPD 2010), mainly because of the poor performance of the agricultural sector and the effects of the 2008 food price crisis on urban households (see Arndt et a. 2008, 2010)…”
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The role of agriculture in the structural transformation of Indonesia por Morley, Samuel, Kennedy, Adam, Pradesha, Angga, Hadiwidjaja, Gracia

“…Second, through the release of workers from low productivity agriculture to more productive nonagricultural activities, structural change contributed between 25 and 50 percent of the rise in national labor productivity depending on the period. …”
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Ghana: Recent developments in agricultural research por Flaherty, Kathleen, Essegbey, George Owusu, Asare, Roland

“…After a period of relative stagnation in the 1990s, agricultural research and development (R&D) spending in Ghana increased dramatically after 2002. …”
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Linkages from agricultural growth in Kenya por Bigsten, Arne, Collier, Paul

“…Over the period 1965-87 Kenya's agricultural production consistently surpassed the average for Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Using GAMS for agricultural policy analysis por Minot, Nicholas

“…In particular, the course aims to train the participants in the following skills: * determining whether an agricultural sector model is appropriate for a given research question; * selecting the scale of the model in terms of commodities, markets, and time periods; * constructing the model in GAMS using available data; * running simulations of alternative policies and events; * revising the model in response to new information; and * documenting and describing the results of simulations. …”
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Uganda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture] por Benin, Samuel, Thurlow, James, Diao, Xinshen, Kebba, Allen, Ofwono, Nelson

“…Moreover, poverty rates fell fast enough to offset high population growth, and by 2000 there were almost three million fewer people living below the poverty line than in 1993. Agricultural growth thus played a key role during Uganda’s successful recovery period by fostering broad-based growth and poverty reduction (Kappel, Lay, and Steiner 2005).…”
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Democratic Republic of the Congo [In Agricultural Extension] por Ragasa, Catherine, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…This chapter analyzes the provision of agricultural extension and advisory services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the context of a postconflict country and the experiences and challenges in reconstituting an extension system. …”
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The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar por Belton, Ben, Win, Myat Thida, Zhang, Xiaobo, Filipski, Mateusz J.

“…Our analysis provides evidence that extremely rapid agricultural mechanization took place during the period of political and economic reforms from 2011 to 2020. …”
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Agriculture, nutrition and the green revolution in Bangladesh por Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F.

“…Next, we create a multi-round district level panel that links changes in nutrition survey data with agricultural sample survey data over 1996–2011, a period in which rice yields rose by more than 70%. …”
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