Water resources are essential to human development processes and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals that seek, inter alia, to eradicate extreme poverty and …

It is becoming increasingly evident that optimization of root architecture for resource capture
is vital for enabling the next green revolution. Although cereals provide half of the calories …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to …

D riven by rapid advances in the sciences and substantial public investments and policy
support for agriculture, the Green Revolution was just one aspect of a much larger …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the …

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 …

Two possible adaptation scenarios to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed
under the SRES B2 scenario. The first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Sub-Saharan …

This paper asks: What can be done to expand input use in Africa? and Can it be done in a
manner that supports continued growth of private sector input markets? The precarious food …

This paper sets forth the background and objectives of this special issue. Trends in input use
since 1980 are reviewed and a conceptual framework is presented for analyzing problems …

While pesticides–such as insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides–are often promoted as
inputs that increase agricultural productivity by limiting a range of pre‐harvest losses, their …