Now and again, it has been argued that lack of appropriate/improved technologies and non-use of complementary improved inputs are the root causes of the African vicious circle of low agricultural productivity, food shortage, low income and perpetual poverty. These constraints necessitate the African countries putting the applications of science and technology at the core of their vision and strategies for food security, poverty eradication and sustainable development.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2004Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsOctober, 1981Africa
Les activites entreprises par le Groupe conseil en application de la deuxième partie de la même résolution qui demande inventorier les précédes technologiques de production de farines composées, doivent en principe etre achèvées, en 1982.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1985Africa
This study, which is part of in-depth studies on the economies of African least developed countries envisaged in the ECA Medium-term Plan for the period 1984—1989, underscores the objective of the attainment of food self—sufficiency as a priority area called for in such key documents, as Freetown Declaration (November 1976) of Ministers of Agriculture, the Regional Food Plan for Africa (l978) the Monrovia Declaration of Commitment on Guidelines and Measures for National and Collective self-reliance in social and Economic Development for the Establishment of a New Economic Order (July 1979),
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 1993Africa
The objectives of the study are: (i) to assess the performance of the food marketing system in Africa; (ii) to identify the different barrier to credit and assess their impact on the performance of the informal food marketing system; (iii) to suggest sound recommendations on improving informal food marketing operators' access to credit.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsFebruary, 1965Africa
Il semble, d' après des estimations préliminaires, que la production agricole du continent africain qui avait augmente d’environ 7 pour 100 en 1962/63 (mais il s’agissait en grande partie d'un redressement, car elle avait baisse l'année précédente), se soit accrue de noms de un pour 100 en 1963/64. Pour la campagne 1964/65, les chiffres sont encore très limites, mais il semble probable qu'elle aura un peu diminue dans le nord-ouest de l’Afrique.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2011Africa
This paper presents an update on an initiative by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), on the development and promotion of regional strategic food and agricultural commodities value chains in Africa. The cornerstone of the approach to the implementation of this initiative is a pilot scheme in two Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Common Market for Eastern
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 1960Africa
The rate of increase of agricultural production, and especially food production, in Africa appears to have slowed down in the last few years. For 1959/60, the latest season for which data are available, provisional estimates indicate that there was a slight fall in production from the level of the previous year. On a per caput basis, food production appears to have fallen below the prewar level for the last three years.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 1981Africa
With the goal of stimulating the production and utilisation of indigenous cereals, rootss tubers and legumes in particular sorghum in composite flours for bakery products in traditional, new and modified food products it will have the following objectives^
a) ensure better understanding of the importance and potential
for industrial application of sorghums etc. and the technologies
available for milling and baking coarse grains'
b) ascertain the status and plans of existing 'national composite
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 1987Africa
Au cours des deux dernières décennies, l'Afrique a graduellement perdu les moyens qu'elle avait de nourrir sa population et de financer ses investissements dans le secteur agricole. Elle dépend de plus en plus des pays industrialisés pour la satisfaction des besoins. La question logique est par conséquent de savoir s'il existe un quelconque espoir pour les populations d'Afrique.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2007Africa
This document contains information on Fostering Agricultural Transformation for Food Security, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa, Conference of African Ministers of Finance,Planning and Economic Development/Fortieth session of the Commission.
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