Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural poor, by building on the limited resources farming households already possess. It is also the best and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia, this paper examines why the set of technologies promoted to date have produced localized...
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2016/6/20
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS7710
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2016/6/20
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Disclosed
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On the central role of small farms in African rural development strategies
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international dimension