Titlebook: Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; Abebe Shimeles,Audrey Verdier-Chouchane,Amadou Bol Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 20

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Transforming African Agriculture Through Special Economic Zones: Opportunities and ChallengesAfrica. The author interrogates on how the SEZs route offers some options to transform agriculture and develop agribusiness markets that are essential in ensuring food and nutrition security, ending hunger, and reducing poverty. Focusing on the historical development of SEZs, their typologies, and g

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Global Value Chains and Upgrading in Economic Community of West African States Countries now integrate themselves as links in such value chains. This chapter examines not only the level of integration but also the upgrading of 14 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries in the GVCs through diversification and sophistication indicators. The results show that the part

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Conclusions: Enhancing the Resilience and Sustainability of the Agriculture Sector in sub-Saharan Afation of productivity through innovation and training, they consider the use of new Information and communication technology (ICT)-based services and modern technology in agriculture to cope with climate change. Authors then consider the improvement of policies and institutions, including land refor

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Fatiha Alabau‐Boussouira,Piermarco Cannarsaal potential, sub-Saharan African countries have not yet benefited from it and experienced the highest prevalence of undernourishment worldwide. As a result, countries import increasingly more agricultural products than they export, putting additional strain on scarce foreign exchange reserves. In t

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Four-Way Helical Junctions in DNA Molecules,ing a survey on family farms carried out in 2007 by the Agricultural Research Institute for Development (IRAD) under the Project to Strengthen Agricultural Research Partnerships in Cameroon (REPARAC). The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique was used to determine the agricultural productivity gap

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8929-1 Hurungwe, Zimbabwe. The findings reveal a population technological gap of 12.7%, resulting from lack of awareness. Further, they show that exposure to technology causes adoption rates of agricultural technologies to increase by an average of 42.9% from the average of 3.2% of farmers not exposed to

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Fusion of Ambiguous Observations; however, they face great setbacks in terms of access to inputs. The influence of input utilization on labor productivity differentials among male- and female-managed plots was assessed using the 2013 General Household Survey (GHS) data for Nigeria. Results revealed that input use was generally low

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8929-1ls of agricultural technologies. In this study, data were collected through well-structured questionnaires administered to 80 women farmers in an on-farm trial of the drought tolerant (DT) maize variety in Southern Guinea Savannah (SGS) Agro-ecological zone of Nigeria. The study showed that the wome

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8929-1s is also undertaken. Using data from 400 farmers, the study employs a propensity score matching method to analyze the impact of the adoption of Jatropha Curcas on total crop incomes of farmers. The study concludes that Jatropha adoption significantly reduces the level of crop income per hectare of

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29840-0t is not always accessible to producers, and the profitability criterion is chosen as a decision criterion for individual investment of producers. By evaluating the marginal rate of return, choosing the best combination of products obtained ensures both good yields but also to a positive financial r