Food Security International Development Policy Syntheses

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272257: IMPROVING THE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: PROMOTING COMPLEMENTARITIES BETWEEN MICRO AND MACRO DATA

Valerie Kelly, Jane Hopkins, Thomas Reardon and Eric Crawford

234947: The Rewards of an Improved Enabling Environment: How Input Market Reform Helped Kenyan Farmers Raise Their Fertilizer Use By 36%

Megan Sheahan, Joshua Ariga and Thomas Jayne

196830: DOES THE CURRENT SUGAR MARKET STRUCTURE BENEFIT CONSUMERS AND SUGARCANE GROWERS?

Brian Chisanga, Ferdinand H. Meyer, Alex Winter-Nelson and Nicholas Sitko

171878: Africa's Changing Farm Structure and Employment Challenge

Thomas Jayne, Antony Chapoto, Nicholas Sitko, M. Muyanga, C. Nkonde and Jordan Chamberlin

157940: What is the Scope for Horticulture to Drive Smallholder Poverty Reduction in Africa?

David Tschirley

157939: Strengthening Staple Food Markets in Eastern And Southern Africa: Toward An Integrated Approach for CAADP Investment Plans

Thomas Jayne, Antony Chapoto and Jordan Chamberlin

157938: On Managing the New Food Price Environment in Countries with Food Insecure Populations

David Tschirley and Nango Dembelé

107460: The New Generation of African Fertilizer Subsidies: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

Valerie Kelly, Eric Crawford and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

107459: What Kind of Agricultural Strategies Lead to Broad-Based Growth: Implications For Country-Led Agricultural Investment Programs

Thomas Jayne and Duncan Boughton

55050: Improving Food Security in Africa: Highlights of 25 Years of Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach

Food Security Group at Michigan State University

54509: Promoting Fertilizer Use in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

Isaac J. Minde, Thomas Jayne, Eric Crawford, Joshua Ariga and Govereh Jones

54508: Food Crises and Food Markets: Implications for Emergency Response in Southern Africa

David Tschirley and Thomas Jayne

54507: Smallholder Farming Under Increasingly Difficult Circumstances: Policy and Public Investment Priorities for Africa

Thomas Jayne, David Mather and Elliot W. Mghenyi

54506: The Many Paths of Cotton Sector Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa: Lessons from a Decade of Experience

David Tschirley, Colin Poulton and Duncan Boughton

54505: Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement: An Assessment of Experience in Africa and Elements of Good Donor Practice

David Tschirley and Anne Marie del Castillo

11470: Mali's Market Information System: Innovative Evolution in Support of a Dynamic Private Sector

Nango Dembele, James F. Tefft and John Staatz

11467: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Child Feeding and Care: Preliminary Insights from the Project on Linkages between Child Nutrition and Agricultural Growth

Victoria Wise, James F. Tefft, Valerie Kelly and John Staatz

11463: Effects of Agricultural Commercialization on Food Crop Input Use and Productivity in Kenya

Paul J. Strasberg, Thomas Jayne, Takashi Yamano, James K. Nyoro, Daniel David Karanja and John Strauss

11462: Understanding and Reducing Child Malnutrition in Mali: Interim Research Findings for the Project on Linkages between Child Nutrition and Agricultural Growth (LICNAG)

James F. Tefft and Valerie Kelly

11459: Cash Crop and Foodgrain Productivity in Senegal: Historical View, New Survey Evidence, and Policy Implications

Valerie A. Kelley, Bocar N. Diagana, Thomas Reardon, Matar Gaye and Eric Crawford

11456: Effects of Market Reform on Access to Food by Low-Income Households: Evidence from Four Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa

Thomas Jayne, Lawrence Rubey, David Tschirley, Mulinge Mukumbu, Munhamo Chisvo, Ana Paula Santos, Michael Weber and Patrick K. Diskin

11455: Food Aid Monetization in West Africa: How to Make It More Effective

John Staatz, Patrick K. Diskin and Nancy Estes

11454: Interactions Between the Agricultural Sector and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Implications for Agricultural Policy

Thomas Jayne, Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali and Gunter Henrich

11450: A Strategic Approach to Agricultural Research Program Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa

Duncan Boughton, Eric Crawford, Julie A. Howard, James F. Oehmke, James D. Shaffer and John Staatz

11449: Fertilizer in Sub-Saharan Africa: Breaking the Vicious Circle of High Prices and Low Demand

Valerie Kelly, Thomas Reardon, David Yanggen and Anwar Naseem

11446: Income and Nutritional Outcomes in Rwanda's Rural Areas, 1990 and 2000

Andy McKay and Scott Loveridge

11444: Using Empirical Information in the Era of HIV/AIDS to Inform Mitigation and Rural Development Strategies: Selected Results from African Country Studies

David Mather, Cynthia Donovan, Thomas Jayne and Michael Weber

11443: An Action Plan to Strengthen Linkages between Agricultural Productivity Growth and Improved Childhood Nutrition

James F. Tefft, John Staatz and Christopher L. Penders

11442: Mali's Rural Communes: A Potential Catalyst for Improving Child Nutrition?

James F. Tefft, Daouda Keita, Victoria Wise, Valerie Kelly and John Staatz

11440: No Shortcuts to Progress: An Assessment of Agricultural Research Planning and Priority Setting in Africa

Mywish Maredia, Julie A. Howard and Duncan Boughton

11439: Connaissances, Attitudes et Pratiques en Matiere de Soin et d'Alimentation de l'Enfant: Resultatspreliminaires du Projet sur les Liens Entre la Nutrition Infantile et la Croissance Agricole (LICNAG)

Victoria Wise, James F. Tefft, Valerie Kelly and John Staatz

11438: Dynamic Analysis of Soil Fertility Improvement: A Bioeconomic Model for Senegal

Bocar N. Diagana, Valerie Kelly and Eric Crawford

11435: Comment augmenter les revenus des producteurs? Leçons de l'office du Niger au Mali

Dramane Mariko, Valerie Kelly and Anne Chohin-Kuper

11433: Guidelines for Building Sustainable Market Information Systems in Africa with Strong Public-Private Partnerships

Michael Weber, Cynthia Donovan, John Staatz and Nango Dembele

11431: Relato de Sucesso da Seguranca Alimentar em Mocambique

David L. Tschirley and Michael Weber

11429: Regional Trade in Maize in Southern Africa: Examining the Experience of Northern Mozambique and Malawi

Pedro Arlindo and David L. Tschirley

11427: The Impact of Millet, Sorghum, and Cowpea Research and Technology Transfer in Niger

Valentina Mazzucato and Samba Ly

11425: Promoting Food Security in Rwanda through Sustainable Agricultural Productivity: Meeting the Challenges of Population Pressure, Land Degradation, and Poverty

Daniel C. Clay, Fidele Usabuwera Byiringiro, Jaakko Kangasniemi, Thomas Reardon, Bosco Sibomana, Laurence Uwamariya and David Tardif-Douglin

11423: Will the CFA Franc Devaluation Enhance Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in the Senegalese Peanut Basin?

Bocar N. Diagana and Valerie Kelly

11421: Comprendre et Reduire la Malnutrition au Mali: Resultats de Recherches Preliminaires du Projet sur les Liens entre la Nutrition Infantile et la Croissance Agricole (LICNAG)

James F. Tefft and Valerie Kelly

11418: Impact of the Malian Cereals Market Reform Program on Farmers

Nango Dembele, John Staatz and Michael Weber

11417: Comment le développement agricole affecte-t-il la nutrition infantile au Mali?

Christopher L. Penders, John Staatz and James F. Tefft

11416: Understanding and Improving Food Aid Targeting in Rural Ethiopia

Thomas Jayne, John Strauss, Takashi Yamano and Daniel Molla

11415: Assessing the Impact of Cowpea and Sorghum Research and Extension in Northern Cameroon

James A. Sterns and Richard Bernsten

11411: Payoffs to Investments in Agricultural Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa

James F. Oehmke and Eric Crawford

11401: Liens entre la nutrition infantile et la croissance agricole au Mali: Un resume des premiers resultats

James F. Tefft, Valerie Kelly, Victoria Wise and John Staatz

11400: Green Revolution Technology Takes Root in Africa: The Promise and Challenge of the Ministry of Agriculture/Sg2000 Experiment with Improved Cereals Technology in Ethiopia

Julie A. Howard, Valerie Kelly, Mulat Demeke, Mywish Maredia and Julie Stepanek

11399: Returns to Oilseed and Maize Research in Uganda

Rita Laker-Ojok

11396: Is Agricultural Intensification Profitable For Mozambican Smallholders? An Appraisal of the Inputs Subsector and the 1996/97 DNER/Sg2000 Program

Julie A. Howard, Jose Jaime Jeje, David L. Tschirley, Paul J. Strasberg, Eric Crawford and Michael Weber

11395: Towards a Strategy for Improving Agricultural Inputs Markets in Africa

Valerie Kelly, Eric Crawford, Julie A. Howard, Thomas Jayne, John Staatz and Michael Weber