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Climate change and adaptation in African agriculture
Stockholm Environment Institute, 2008
The development of climate projections for Africa is evolving rapidly, yet little is known about how effectively this data is being utilised. This study, commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, aims to identify and understand the extent to which, and ways in which, information from climate change models is being integrated into agricultural development practice and decision-m
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World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development
World Development Report, World Bank, 2007
Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
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Promoting pro-poor growth: agriculture
Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006
In most poor countries growth in agriculture tends to be pro-poor, because it increases the value of poor people’s key assets of land and labour. Achieving internationally agreed poverty reduction targets therefore depends on boosting growth in agricultural sector productivity for the majority of countries.