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Resource-productivity, allocative efficiency and determinants of technical efficiency of rainfed rice farmers: A guide for food security policy in Nigeria

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2008
Nigeria
land
farmers
Stochastic frontier analysis was used to examine input demand elasticities and determinants of technical inefficiency of rainfed farmers in Nigeria. Allocative efficiency of the factor inputs was computed using the marginal value product. Our results show that herbicide has the highest elasticities. It is followed by seeds, fertilizers and land. Labour has the least contribution to the output. None of the respondents optimally allocated the inputs. A large number of the farmers underutilized the variables land, seeds, fertilizer and herbicide, whereas numerous farmers over-utilized labour.
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Land use decisions in smallholder rural communities in developing countries.CAB Reviews

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2008
Algeria, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Indonesia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Niger, Eritrea, Malaysia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Brunei Darussalam, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Chad, Vietnam, Sub-Saharan Africa
land use
Land use change has become increasingly acknowledged as an important issue in terms of understanding the processes of global change. Hence, land use decision-making by smallholder communities in developing countries become a vital part of the broader comprehension of environmental and social change that are related to the change processes at the global scale. A wide range of analytical and conceptual frameworks has been developed to facilitate and sharpen such analyses, ranging from very theoretical to directly operational approaches.
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Enhancing the governance of Africa’s oil sector

January, 2009
Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, South Sudan, Sudan, Cameroon
extractive industries
Empirical studies have shown that oil-dependent countries are more likely to suffer from civil wars motivated by ‘grievances’ or ‘greed’ — and this is particularly true for states in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

January, 2009
Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Peru, Ghana, Congo, Argentina, Senegal, Malawi
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
urban planning
food security
agriculture
This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security. The case studies covered by the authors, focus on the following aspects of urban agriculture:
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TSBF Institute: Outcome line: ISFM-based crop production systems for major impact zones in sub-saharan Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Africa, Africa, Eastern Africa
land use
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CPWF Annual Report 2007

Reports & Research
December, 2008
China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Eastern Africa, Central America, South America, Western Asia, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa
water management
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) brings together scientists, development

specialists, and communities, in nine river basins across Africa, Asia and Latin America, to address

challenges of water scarcity, food security and poverty.

Some CPWF projects seek to develop innovative technologies, new institutional arrangements, or

improved policies. Other projects strategically aim to better define issues and challenges,

understand processes and principles, and develop more appropriate research tools and methods.
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A summing up: Synthesis 2007: Changing the way we manage water for food, livelihoods, health and the environment

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, Western Asia, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
water management
rangelands
This reports summarizes and synthesizes activities and achievements of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) through the end of 2007. The CPWF is an intiative of the CGIAR designed to take on the global challenge of water scarcity and food security.
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Land rights regimes in southwest Nigeria: implications for land access and livelihoods security of settled Fulani agropastoralists

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2008
Nigeria
property rights
land ownership
The need of Fulanis for secured access to land is a long time policy challenge in Nigeria but progress in achieving this is far from being made. Meanwhile, access to land, of Fulanis that are settled among the Yorubas in southwest Nigeria, is dependent on land rights regimes operating in Yoruba communities. The study examines the nature of land rights in southwest Nigeria and how these provide access to Fulanis for their livelihoods activities. The study hypothesised that land access and land rights relate significantly to livelihood security of the Fulanis.
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The state of food and agriculture, 2008

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2008
France, Nigeria, United States of America, Chile, Sweden, Germany, China, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Finland, Thailand, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Tanzania, India, Russia, Mexico, Brazil
land use
poverty
The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 explores the implications of the rapid recent growth in production of biofuels based on agricultural commodities. The boom in liquid biofuels has been largely induced by policies in developed countries, based on their expected positive contributions to climate-change mitigation, energy security and agricultural development.
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Bioenergy and land tenure

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Angola, France, Nigeria, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Germany, Indonesia, Bolivia, Ghana, Colombia, Kenya, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Netherlands, Argentina, India, Sudan, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo
land policies
land
land governance
land tenure
land rights
land access
right of access
Land Tenure Working Paper 1. This document analyzes the implications for land tenure and land policy of biofuels. It examines the current and likely future impacts of the increasing spread of biofuels on access to land in producer countries, particularly for poorer rural people. It aims to pave the way for future empirical research on the links between the spread of biofuels and access to land, through developing a conceptual framework for such research and through taking stock of data available in the literature.