Seventy percent of Africa's poor live in rural areas and work primarily in agriculture. Yet their productivity remains the lowest in the world, with farm labor productivity at one-half and land productivity only one-third of the levels attained in developing Asia . Available evidence suggests that over half of African smallholder farmers (operating less than 20 hectares) are typically net buyers of staple cereals, while around one-fourth are net sellers and, on average, less than one-fourth neither buy nor sell staples. Empirical studies find that agriculture-led growth generates roughly double the poverty reduction of comparable industrial growth. As part of a necessarily broad development agenda, public investment boosting smallholder agricultural productivity offers the single most p...
... Council to produce a report on African agriculture that was launched at the UN in June 20... Technology Strategies for Improving Agricultural Productivity and Food Security in Africa," 2004; s...
On Oct 2, 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held a conference that focused on the economic impacts of volatile agricultural prices and food policy, especially their intersection with the macroeconomy through food price inflation. In the opening session, two presentations examined recent increases in agricultural costs and the impacts on farm operations. In the second session, two presenters characterized current and future world food demand and supply. In the third session, Leslie McGranahan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, covered the distributional effects of food price inflation in the US. The final session explored the relationship between food price inflation and the macroeconomy. Daniel G. Sullivan, director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, stated that food p...
... been a key component of agricultural productivity growth. Next, Gary Schnitkey, University of Illino... vital for economic growth, especially in Africa, because of strong growth linkages and comparative...
This paper applies the sequential Malmquist index to calculate multi-lateral, multi-factor productivity (MFP) indices for agriculture in 16 regions of Bangladesh from 1964 to 1992 and examines convergence amongst regions. Productivity grew at an average rate of 0.9% per annum, led by regions with high level of Green Revolution technology diffusion. The growth mainly occurred due to technological progress estimated at 1.9% per year. Overall technical efficiency declined steadily at 1.0% per year due to falling efficiency in most of the regions in later years. Both cross-section and time-series tests confirm that divergence among regions disappeared and agricultural productivity reached convergence in the long-run. Policy options to reverse declining efficiency are considered. These inclu...
... and its components in both Asia and Africa. For example, Wu (2000) found that overall TFP gro...
SEATTLE (AP) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Tuesday it is joining with the Rockefeller Foundation to fight hunger in Africa, beginning with a $100 million pledge to improve agricultural productivity. The Rockefeller Foundation pledged its own $50 million donation. Officials at the two foundations said the money was just the beginning of a much bigger effort to bring the "green revolution" to Africa.
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, the Global Harvest Initiative (GHI) released its second annual Global Agricultural Productivity Report(TM) (GAP Report(TM)), which, since the inaugural 2010 GAP Report, finds progress in the current growth rate of agricultural productivity worldwide but highlights the challenges that lie ahead to maintain the current growth rate over each of the next 40 years. These challenges are especially critical in overcoming deficiencies in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, where the vast majority of global population growth will occur. The 2011 GAP Report sheds new light on the steps necessary to address the challenge of feeding the more than nine billion people expected to inhabit t...
SEATTLE, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 88 new winners of US$100,000 each to support innovative research that has the potential to dramatically improve lives in some of the world's poorest countries. The funding, made possible through the Grand Challenges Exploration (GCE) program, will enable researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges. One bold idea is all it takes to catalyze new approaches to global health and development," said Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Despite the progress in global health and development, we vitally need creative ideas to discover and deliver life-saving vaccines, eradicate the next disease or...
... waste for market sale to increase agricultural productivity in sub- Saharan Africa and reduce hea...
... of these has been low production and productivity. Yet, the agricultural sub-sector of the economy a...(1995). Information and agriculture in Africa. In Aina, L.O., Kaniki, A.M., Ojiambo, J.B. (Eds.)...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2011, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Sustainable Trade (IDH) announced today that the new African Cocoa (WCF/ACI), a Global Development Alliance partnership to invest in sustainable cocoa programs in West Africa, will be launched in the coming weeks. Cocoa is one of the most significant crops in West and Central Africa, 90 percent of which is grown on 2 million small family farms. WCF/ACI is a five-year, $13.5 million program in the four producing countries of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria that will develop their cocoa sector in four critical areas: foster public-private cooperative investments in cocoa and agriculture, improve the genetic quali...
... worldwide and more than 75% of them are African children and expectant mothers who have less immun... and consequently lower labor productivity, disability and poverty. The disease affects sever... the impoverishment of rural agricultural households through direct output and income losses...
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