This paper focuses on the improvement of statistics on agriculture producer prices. The agricultural sector is even more vital in Africa where the majority of the population live and depend on this sector and its improvement ...

Africa is a considerable net exporter of agricultural products and in 1963 the volume of its gross imports amounted only .to about a quarter of its gross exports. Since 1957 the continent's net exports have been subjected ...

The third meeting of the Committee on Human Development and Civil Society (CHDCS) is organized under the theme "Participation and Partnerships for Improving Development and Governance in Africa". The aim is to facilitate ...

The research work to develop hybrid maize that is high yielding under the agro-ecological conditions obtaining in Zimbabwe and neighbouring countries has been a long term project, the launching of this maize improvement ...

In the final analysis, reducing fertilizer subsidies in Indonesia is a question of enlightened economic foresight, the right reform tiding (e.g., following a good production year), and ability to overcome the rent-seeking ...

This, report, was prepared by three separate missions between December; 1977, and February, 1973. The countries it covers are as follows: (I) West Africa: Gambia; Sierra Leone; Upper Volta; Niger; Peoples Republic of Benin; ...

This paper focused on the draft protocol on coordination of agricultural policies in the preferential trade area for the Eastern and Southern African states.

Africa made impressive economic progress in the 1990s. In the second half of the decade real GDP growth averaged 4% a year, and several countries sustained double-digit growth. The climate became more conducive to domestic ...

The main components of water demand are usually grouped as municipal, agricultural and rural, and industrial (see attached figure ). There, is no universally accepted classification of these components as there is usually ...

This paper focuses on the role of women in agro-industries in eastern and southern Africa. The women of Africa have' historically played key roles in the African economy as contributors to their society and as caretakers ...