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| Boughton, Duncan; Crawford, Eric W.; Howard, Julie A.; Oehmke, James F.; Shaffer, James D.; Staatz, John M.. |
| Recent studies have shown that agricultural research can have high payoffs in Africa, but impact depends on how well technology fits with evolving needs and capacity in the agricultural sector and the rest of the economy. Structural adjustment policies (e.g., market liberalization, currency devaluation) and political change are transforming user demands for new technology and the economic environment in which technology must perform. The challenge is how to design agricultural research as a strategic input to promote broad-based economic growth, structural transformation, and food security in the increasingly market-driven, but fragile, economies of Africa. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Agricultural Research; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Downloads May 2008-July 2009: 44; Q18. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54702 |
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| Howard, Julie A.; Jeje, Jose Jaime; Kelly, Valerie A.; Boughton, Duncan. |
| This paper summarizes the results from data collected during the study’s second year, 1997/98. The analysis is based on a sample of 210 smallholder farmers in Nampula Province using three different sets of production practices: the DNER/Sasakawa- Global 2000 Program (DNER/SG) high-input package (improved open-pollinated maize, 100 kg/ha each 12-24-12 and urea fertilizer on credit); improved planting and weeding practices only (using local seed, without fertilizer); and a control group of farmers using traditional practices (no improved seed or fertilizer). The objectives of the research were to: describe the characteristics, input use patterns and yield response by group; analyze the relative contribution to yield of the different technologies,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Mozambique; Maize; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55217 |
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| Rohrbach, David D.; Low, Jan W.; Pitoro, Raul; Cucu, Alfredo; Massingue, Jaquelino; Boughton, Duncan; Rafael, Guilhermina; Paulo, Antonio M.; Jocene, Domingos. |
| Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Mozambique; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56047 |
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| Kajisa, Kei; Maredia, Mywish K.; Boughton, Duncan. |
| This paper contrasts the successful transformation of the oil palm sector in Malaysia with the stagnation of the oil palm sector in Nigeria, and examines the factors determining the different paths that the oil palm sectors took in these two countries with the aim of drawing lessons for future development and transfer strategy in Nigeria. Comparing two countries in different regions is not easy, especially when Nigeria has been in political chaos and the agro-climatic environments for oil-palm production differ greatly in these two countries. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, not to compare the potential technology frontiers these two countries can reach, but instead to highlight the technological and environmental factors that helped or hindered... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11483 |
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| Mather, David; Cunguara, Benedito; Boughton, Duncan. |
| Mozambique made impressive reductions in poverty from 1996 to 2002. The national poverty rate, as documented by the National Household Consumption Survey Inquérito aos Agregados Familiares (IAF) expenditure surveys in those years, fell from 69.4% in 1996/97 to 54.1% in 2002/03. Consistent with the IAF expenditure survey results, Trabalho de Inquerito Agricola (TIA) rural household income surveys showed that mean and median rural household income per adult equivalent increased by 65% and 30% respectively from 1995/96 to 2001/02, and that all income quintiles shared in the income growth. Yet in spite of these impressive gains in household welfare, the majority of the country’s population remained below the poverty line in 2002/03 (51.5% in urban areas, 55.3%... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97146 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Poulton, Colin; Boughton, Duncan. |
| This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. The paper focuses on the course of reform in each – initial conditions, key elements of the reform, and institutional response to it – and draws lessons for policy makers, donors, and researchers. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Cotton reform; Agricultural and Food Policy; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54565 |
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| Boughton, Duncan; Dembele, Niama Nango; Kelly, Valerie A.; Staatz, John M.. |
| A key role for USAID and its partners is to identify how their resources can best contribute to increasing the capacity of the private and public sectors in Mali to scale up their investments, and increase the impact of those investments, in relation to the food security dimensions of availability, access, utilization and stability. To fulfill this role will involve identifying opportunities presented in the Malian agricultural sector investment plan (PNISA) to address critical needs in each of these dimensions, the types of investment that will best address the needs, and the set of resources and skills that will enable Malian organizations and entrepreneurs to implement those investments successfully and at scale. Even with increased resources, however,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97139 |
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