Environmental stress and agricultural landownership in Africa

Agricultural Productivity in Africa

Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout Africa, since the majority of the continent’s poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Despite these strategies, agricultural growth in Africa lags behind overall economic growth, and agricultural performance falls below that of other develop...

Constraints to Increasing Agricultural Production and Productivity among Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Agricultural Transformation Agenda

Agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of Africa, Nigeria inclusive. But the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. An understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

Agricultural Technological and Institutional Innovations for Enhanced Adaptation to Environmental Change in North Africa

Agricultural Aid and Food Security in Africa

This paper investigates the effects of agricultural aid on food security in African countries during the the 1990 to 2012 period. Defining food security as increases in agricultural productivity and controlling for a large number of covariates, we find that agricultural aid, at the aggregate level, aid to the agricultural sector has positive and statistically significant effect on food security...

Natural radioactivity in virgin and agricultural soil and its environmental implications in Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaysia

A study on natural radioactivity in virgin and agricultural soil samples collected from Sungai Petani was conducted using high-purity germanium. The mean activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K in virgin soils were 51.06±5.83, 78.44±6.42, and 125.66±7.26 Bq kg−1, respectively, while those in agricultural soils were 80.63±5.78, 116.87±7.87, and 200.66±18.24 Bq kg−1, respectively. The co...