Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa
Siddig Umbadda and
Ismail Elgizouli
No wp-2013-081, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
Abstract:
Although agriculture is important for the livelihood of most Africans, especially the poor, donors did not accord it a high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around five per cent, but continuously declined between 1981-2001, before picking up after the world food crisis in 2007-08. Aid recently became a top agenda in donors' priorities because of concerns about its effectiveness and also because of budget pressures in donor countries as well as queries raised by their tax payers.
Keywords: Agriculture; Economic assistance and foreign aid; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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