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    A Critical Review

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

    This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.

  2. Library Resource

    Mozambique

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    April, 2012
    Mozambique, Africa

    Mozambique, the only Lusophone country covered in the agribusiness indicators initiative, has had a turbulent history since independence. Civil unrest over some 20 years and frequent drought in southern Mozambique, coupled with floods near the many waterways that transect the country (mainly east-west), have inhibited an agricultural transformation. Even so, Mozambique could be a regional breadbasket. The country has much potentially usable arable land, along with access to river water for irrigation in many agricultural production zones, particularly in central and northern Mozambique.

  3. Library Resource

    Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    November, 2015
    Kenya

    Despite myriad challenges, Kenya has emerged in recent years as one of Africa’s frontier economies, with headline growth in the most recent decade propelling the country toward middle-income status. Less well understood is how risk dynamics associated with production, markets, and policy adversely impact sector performance, in terms of both influencing ex ante decision making among farmers, traders, and other sector stakeholders and causing ex post losses to crops, livestock, and incomes - destabilizing livelihoods and jeopardizing the country’s food security.

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Zambia

    The report documents poverty in Zamia
    along a number of dimensions, including material
    deprivation, human deprivation, vulnerability, destitution,
    and social stigmatization. The report identified a number of
    basic actions to facilitate growth in the rural sector;
    these include (1) a (revived) system of regular manual
    maintenance of rural roads; (2) simple systems of animal
    disease control; animal movement control; health inspection

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    This report presents an update on the
    economic challenges facing Ethiopia with a focus on the
    shared goal of accelerating equitable growth. The starting
    point is the Government's own Plan for Accelerated and
    Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP), which is in
    the process of finalization, and is designed to cover the
    period 2005-2010. This report proposes that the growth
    strategy should more explicitly adopt a

  6. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Zambia

    Despite positive, relatively broad-based
    and stable growth record in recent years and immense
    untapped potential in agriculture, mining and services,
    Zambia's poverty rates have not declined significantly
    and remain high. Income growth is limited by coordination
    failures such as poor access to domestic and international
    markets, inputs, extension services and information. High
    indirect costs - most of which attributable to

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Africa, Guinea

    This report summarizes the findings of
    the study on Competitive Commercial Agriculture for Africa
    (CCAA). The objective of the CCAA study was to explore the
    feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and
    growth in African agriculture through the identification of
    products and production systems that can underpin rapid
    development of a competitive commercial agriculture. The
    CCAA study focused on the agricultural potential of

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Lesotho

    Lesotho began a structural economic
    transformation in the early 1990s. The transformation has
    brought higher, more secure incomes to households while the
    government succeeded in dramatically improving access to
    services such as education, health, water, and
    transportation. Yet today, Lesotho faces a number of serious
    development challenges, including a high rate of chronic
    poverty, entrenched income inequality, and most troubling

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Tanzania

    This report presents the problem,
    describes the analytical framework, the African and World
    context and the characteristics that need to be present for
    a responsible and effective urbanization. Chapter one
    discusses the issues involved in measuring urban growth and
    density and the problem of under-measuring density. Chapter
    two introduces key aspects of the recent urbanization in
    Tanzania, including migration, structure of economy and

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Liberia

    Fourteen years of civil conflict
    (1989-2003) have destroyed Liberia's social and
    economic infrastructure and brought the economy nearly to a
    halt. Workers who came of age during the conflict are
    largely unskilled, and the supply of workers exceeds demand
    by a substantial margin. The negative effects of
    unemployment, underemployment, and low productivity on
    economic growth have made employment the most urgent demand

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