Agricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. Seventy percent of all Africans— and nearly 90 percent of the poor—work primarily in agriculture. As consumers, all of Africa’s poor—both urban and rural—count heavily on the efficiency of the continent’s farmers.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mali, Kenya
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Are the rural poor gaining?
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2008Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, UgandaForest sector governance reform is frequently promoted as a policy tool for achieving favorable livelihood outcomes in the low income tropics. However, there is a dearth of empirical evidence to support this claim, particularly at the household level. Drawing on the case of a major forest sector governance reform implemented in Uganda in 2003, this study seeks to fill that gap.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Malawi
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Evidence from the charcoal trade in Madagascar
Peer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Madagascar -
Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Americas, Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Tanzania
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010Africa, Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda
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Evidence from Malawi
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia
This paper examines the nature of community management of woodlots and investigates the determinants of collective action and its effectiveness in managing woodlots...in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. We find that collective management of woodlots generally functions well in Tigray.... The findings suggest collective action may be more beneficial and more effective when managed at a more local level, when the role of external organizations is more demand-driven, and when promoted in intermediate population density communities more remote from markets.
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the case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2000Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, EthiopiaThis paper examines the nature of community management of woodlots and investigates the determinants of collective action and its effectiveness in managing woodlots, based on a survey of 100 villages in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. We find that collective management of woodlots generally functions well in Tigray. Despite limited current benefits received by community members, the woodlots contribute substantially to community wealth, increasing members’ willingness to provide collective effort to manage the woodlots.
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