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  Can Market-Based Approaches to Technology Development and Dissemination Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers? A Qualitative Assessment of Gender Dynamics in the Ownership, Purchase, and use of Irrigation Pumps in Kenya and Tanzania

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions to reduce the effects of weather variability and guard against inconsistent and low crop output.
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  Opportunities for support to System of Rice Intensification in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  There is a great potential for increasing the production of rice in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi. Many of the constraints on rice production are similar for the three countries. Common problems are low quality of seeds, lack of access to inputs, poorly functioning irrigation schemes, poor soil fertility management, weed infestation, low yields and low technical capacity.
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  Topic Guide: Agricultural productivity

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  As the recent world food crisis has demonstrated, meeting the food needs of a growing world population, projected to reach over 9 billion people by 2050, is going to be a challenge. This Evidence on Demand topic guide examines how agricultural production has been improved and increased.
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  Revolutionising finance for agri-value chains

  Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014

  It is estimated that only 20% of populations in most developing countries have access to formal financial services, and in Africa only 4% of the total population have a bank account while only 1% of Africans have a loan or credit facility with a formal financing institution.
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  Farmer-driven research to improve food and nutrition security

  Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2013

  The livelihood of over 60% of Africans is derived from agriculture but productivity remains low on this continent whilst all other continents have experienced significant increases. The challenge for agriculture is threefold: to increase agricultural production, especially of nutrient-rich foods; to do so in ways which reduce inequality: and to reverse and prevent resource degradation.
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  2014 African Transformation Report: Growth with depth

  African Center for Economic Transformation, 2014

  This report from the African Center for Economic Transformation presents the state of economic transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa, lessons learned from African countries and selected comparators from Asia and Latin America. IT also discusses how this transformation can be sustained for the long run.
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  Supporting ‘Autonomy and Resistance’ The Brazil-Mozambique-South Africa native seed bank project

  Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014

  This case study explores an innovative multi-stakeholder project led civil society in three countries: Brazil, Mozambique and South Africa.
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  Cultivating the future: Exploring the the potential and impact of a green revolution in Africa

  Institute for Security Studies, 2012

  Despite possessing large tracts of rich, uncultivated land, Africa is a net importer of food and suffers from high levels of undernutrition. Some scholars have argued that a ‘Green Revolution’, defined by increasing crop yields and land under cultivation, could bring about a more sustainable future for the continent.
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  Contours of South-South Cooperation and Biotechnology in Asia: strategising for agricultural and industrial growth

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011

  Several Asian economies have adopted biotechnology for harnessing development and efforts are on for integrating biotechnology in the national development plans.
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  Horizons of functional food production in Syria and its exportation to international markets: Russia as an example

  National Agricultural Policy Centre, Syria, 2013

  F.F is a category that comprises an extended spectrum of foods and beverages, ranging from natural foods that contain functional components like lycopene in tomato and Omega-3 fatty acids in seafood, to fortified foods like calcium-fortificated orange juice or cereal fortified with vitamins and minerals.

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