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...
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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.
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Digital breakthroughs have the power to transform smallholders' agriculture.
Digital agriculture fits flexible adaptation to fluctuating situations.
SSA's farmers recognized the advantages...
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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...
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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...
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This study analyzes the impact of malnutrition on infant mortality and life expectancy in a sample of 36 African countries during the 2003–2018 period.
The economic implications of...