There is an urgent need for agri-food system transformation to achieve global sustainability
goals. Innovations can play a key role in this transformation but often come with both …

The new international food security agenda proposes small farmer production as the
solution to growing food insecurity in Africa. A striking omission in this agenda is any …

Using cross-sectional data and a propensity score matching technique, this paper
investigates the impact of cooperatives on adoption of agricultural technologies. Our …

Despite significant efforts, Africa has struggled to imitate the rapid agricultural growth that
took place in Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. As a rare but important exception, Ethiopia's …

Although the potential causes and consequences of recent rising international food prices
have attracted widespread attention, many existing appraisals are superficial and/or …

Sorting out the impacts of biofuels on global agricultural commodity prices is impossible
without turning to data and distinguishing between the short-run versus the long-run …

Since the seminal works of Malthus and Boserup, scientists have long debated the impact of
population growth and land constraints on the wellbeing of rural people. Today these …

In Uganda, New Rice for Africa (NERICA), a high-yielding upland rice variety suitable for the
African environment, was introduced to increase food security and reduce poverty in rural …

This article presents multi‐output, multi‐input total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates in
agriculture for 88 countries over the 1970–2001 period, estimated with both stochastic …

Rapid urbanization and increasing urban poverty are shifting the historical locus of food
insecurity from the rural areas to the cities of Africa. This article uses data from the African …