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This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits...

Highlights: This study explores innovation types that impact agricultural productivity in SSA. The two-ways FE is applied to a sample of 22 countries from 1996 to 2014. The results...

Highlights: Digital breakthroughs have the power to transform smallholders' agriculture. Digital agriculture fits flexible adaptation to fluctuating situations. SSA's farmers recognized the advantages...

Highlights Data from 45 selected Sub-Saharan Africa countries, covering the years 2002–2020. The two-step system GMM estimator of the dynamic panel model was used to...

Inventory credit is being developed in several Sahelian countries. This device is implemented by a farmers' organisation and a financial institution. It consists in storing a portion of harvested grain in a warehouse...

This study analyzes the spontaneous impact of human, social and natural capital on food crop technical efficiency (TE) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Our study contributes to the literature...

Highlights Few studies engage in household-level analysis to assess the impact of violence. Fewer analyses assess the spillover effects of violence on food security at a household...

Sub-Saharan Africa must urgently improve food security. Phosphorus availability is one of the major barriers to this due to low historical agricultural use. Shared socioeconomic pathways...

Using data from 1995-2015, an empirical study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), led by Vijesh Krishna, CIMMYT...

While economic interdependencies do not prevent war, witnessed most recently by Russia’s naked war of conquest in Ukraine, the costs of war in a globalised world spread...