Acute poverty, chronic food-insecurity and under-development generally spreading in rural Africa are rooted in low and declining outputs in the household farming sub-sector which produces the bulk of agricultural output. ...

This report is divided into two parts. Part I presents the progress report on the international conferences/summits, namely the international Conference on Population and Development; the World Summit for Social Development; ...

The document focuses on the twenty-ninth session of the commission twentieth meeting of the Conference of Ministers responsible for economic and social development and planning convened under the theme "ECA at 35:Building ...

The proportion of the population in Africa living under conditions of poverty has increased at an even faster rate, both in the rural areas, where the economy continued to decline and in the cities, where there has been ...

Africa is still predominantly rural spatially and demographically and may remain so for some time. Over 60 per cent of the population is still rural and agriculture is still the mainstay of most of the populations and most ...

Africa has robust resource potential. In the continent as a whole, the land under cultivation stands at approximately 195 million hectares (IITA, 1993). This enormous land area most of which in sub-Saharan Africa, constitutes ...

This paper is focuses on the report on human development in Africa, 1995. the launching of the report was of historic significance, because it gave the notion of human development an institutional base; conferred on it the ...