This paper calculates multilateral Malmquist indices of total factor productivity (TFP) for
agriculture in 47 African countries, for the period 1961–91. The average rate of TFP growth …

Over the past three decades Africa's public agricultural research systems have changed in
substantive ways. The total number of researchers increased fourfold, the dependency on …

Many critics claim that public research in West Africa has failed to develop technological
innovations to improve productivity and stimulate economic development in the agricultural …

One of Africa's most urgent issues today is food security—food production is not keeping
pace with population growth, leading to continued declines in its already low food …

In opposition to a number of the presentations at the Conference, we argue that the
development of foodcrop agriculture needs to be considered as a pivotal poverty reduction …

We use the new growth theory framework and panel cointegration techniques to analyse the
effect of international agricultural technological spillovers on total factor productivity growth …

Research is never free of pressures and constraints and to understand its results properly
these have to be assessed and analyzed. In agriculture, research into biotechnology and …

It is becoming increasingly clear that without sweeping changes to both domestic and
international policies, Africa will not reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 …

This book examines the differing concepts of food security and the practicalities, policies,
and resources that shape issues of food security. It begins with discussion of the nature of …

That collaboration has always been the foundation of human development as well as the
coping strategy of some animal species is a view widely shared by scholars. In fact, no …