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| Title | Weathering the storm: Agricultural development, investment, and poverty in Africa following the recent food price crisis |
| Author |
Omilola, Babatunde Lambert, Melissa |
| Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | At the national level, dozens of African countries have pledged to implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the African Union (AU). This African-led plan aims to stimulate agriculture on the continent to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) of halving poverty and hunger by 2015. To do so, countries are expected to pursue 6 percent average annual agriculture growth at the national level, allocate 10 percent of national budgets to the agricultural sector, and improve overall policy efficiency through peer-review and accountability. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate trends in agricultural development, performance, and spending in Africa and to track corresponding progress in key poverty and hunger indicators following the recent food price crisis. The reason for tracking this information is that the recent food price crisis has the potential to derail the progress made toward reducing poverty and hunger in many African countries. This paper draws on policy research results in the literature to highlight some of the strategic policy options available to African governments for accelerating agricultural growth in line with the principles of CAADP. In this regard, the paper provides information on CAADP's agenda by reviewing the progress of implementation and performance against a number of key benchmarks. |
| Series Name | IFPRI Discussion Paper |
| Series Number | 965 |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
| Language | English |
| Record Type | Discussion paper |
| Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
| Subject - country location | AFRICA |
| Subject - keywords |
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Food prices African agriculture trends expenditures |
| Subject - author supplied keywords | Millennium Development Goals (MDG) |
| IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 GRP32 MozSSP |
| IFPRI Division | DSGD |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| Display Notes | Effective January 2007, the Discussion Paper series within each division and the Director General's Office of IFPRI were merged into one IFPRI-wide Discussion Paper series. The new series begins with number 00689, reflecting the prior publication of 688 discussion papers within the dispersed series. The earlier series are available on IFPRI's website at http://www.ifpri.org/publications/results/taxonomy%3A468. IFPRI Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have not been subject to formal external reviews managed by IFPRI's Publications Review Committee but have been reviewed by at least one internal and/or external reviewer. They are circulated in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. |
| LOC call number | IFPRIDP00965 |
| Physical description | 42 pages |
| IFPRI Web link | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/weathering-storm |
| Times cited-- Google Scholar | http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1943211758274397918&as_sdt=20005&sciodt=0,9&hl=en |
| RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/ifprid/965.html |
| Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1518.cpd |
| Date cataloged | 2016-09-07 |
| Date modified | 2016-09-07 |
| OCLC number | 778453203 |
| CONTENTdm number | 1517 |
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| Title | ifpridp00965 2 |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1467.pdfpage |
| Date cataloged | 2011-06-15 |
| Date modified | 2011-06-15 |
| CONTENTdm number | 1466 |
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