Analysis of the Determinants of Farmers? Choice of Adaptation Methods and Perceptions of Climate Change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
Ethiopia's agricultural sector, which is dominated by smallscale, mixed-crop, and livestock farming, is the mainstay of the country?s economy. It constitutes more than half of the country's gross domestic product, generates more than 85 percent of foreign exchange earnings, and employs about 80 percent of the population. Unfortunately, Ethiopia's dependence on agriculture makes the country... more
Identifying Opportunities in Ghana?s Agriculture: Results from a Policy Analysis Matrix
Recent increases in cereals prices raise questions about agricultural priorities in Ghana. This report presents an application of the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) to the problem of identifying opportunities to enhance agriculture?s contribution to economic growth and poverty alleviation in the country. The PAM is a budget-based method that was applied to study the social and private... more
Advancing agriculture in developing countries through knowledge and innovation
About 75 percent of the world's poor people live in rural areas, and most of them are involved in farming. Agricultural development in these areas is often constrained by issues of access to appropriate technologies; immense ?institutional weaknesses?; and deep problems with the organization and management of research, education, and extension systems. Many countries and agricultural systems... more
Agricultural Investment for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria
This study assesses public investment required for agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Nigeria. Using time series data for public spending and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, the econometrically estimated results show that one percent of growth in agricultural spending generates 0.24 percent of growth in agricultural TFP. To support 9.5 percent in agricultural... more
Agroenvironmental transformation in the Sahel
A farmer-managed, agroenvironmental transformation has occurred over the past three decades in the West African Sahel, enabling both land rehabilitation and agricultural intensification to support a dense and growing population. This paper traces the technical and institutional innovations, their impacts, and lessons learned from two successful examples. The first is the story of the... more
Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? Insights from Ethiopia and South Africa
This brief describes the results of a modeling exercise to forecast the economywide impacts of expanding irrigation and increasing agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa modeled under a relatively moderate SRES (Special Report on Emission Scenario) B2 climate change scenario, which was developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The results were generated using a... more
Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Nigeria
This study uses an economy-wide, dynamic computable general equilibrium (DCGE) model to analyze the ability of growth in various agricultural subsectors to accelerate overall economic growth and reduce poverty in Nigeria over the next years (2009-17). In addition, econometric methods are used to assess growth requirements in agricultural public spending and the relationship between public... more
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