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    Aid, structural change and the private sector in Africa

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2012
    This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa’s development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and skills, focusing instead on easily understood, but potentially low impact regulatory reforms.
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    Lessons from a ten-year funder collaborative: a case study of the partnership for higher education in Africa

    The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, 2010
    The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (Partnership) was a ten-year funder collaborative that sought to strengthen higher education in Africa. The Partnership focused its support on universities in nine countries: Egypt, Ghana, Madagascar, Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In ten years, the Partnership specifically, 
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    Property and prosperity: reforming landholding in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    How Africans access – or ‘own’ – their landholdings is a matter of profound importance for the continent’s future. It touches on social welfare as well as prospects for economic development. This policy briefing provides an overview of the land question, drawing heavily on the Country Review Reports (CRRs) of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
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    Poverty in a rising Africa: overview

    World Bank, 2015
    Poverty in a Rising Africa is the first of a two-part volume on poverty in Africa aimed at better understanding progress in poverty reduction in Africa and articulating a policy agenda to accelerate it.
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    Drivers of household food availability in sub-Saharan Africa based on big data from small farms

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2015
    Achieving sustainable food security (i.e., the basic right of people to produce and/or purchase the food they need, without harming the social and biophysical environment) is a major challenge in a world of rapid human population growth, large-scale changes in economic development and in the face of climate change.
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    Everyday hazards and vulnerabilities amongst backyard dwellers: A case study of Vredendal North, Matzikama municipality, South Africa

    2015
    The populations of many small towns in South Africa continue to expand unmatched by parallel economic growth, entrenching high levels of poverty.
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    Peace and Security Council Report - African Union Summit focus

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    The theme of the next African Union summit, from 30 to 31 January 2016, is ‘Human rights with a focus on the rights of women’. At the 26th AU Summit, elections will be held for the 15 members of the Peace and Security Council. In 2016, the PSC will have to take tough decisions to try to resolve existing conflicts and prevent new ones from emerging.
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    Regionalism, food security and economic development

    African Capacity Building Foundation, 2014
    This paper provides an assessment of the potential of regional integration in addressing national and household food security and in enhancing economic development in Africa.
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    Food security and sovereignty in Africa: issues, policy challenges and opportunities

    African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012
    The last few decades have seen food insecurity as an emerging crisis that has bedeviled many African countries. While many post-colonial African governments have widely recognised the role of agriculture in national development and capacity development efforts for education and skills have been ongoing for several years, progress to attain food security has been slow.
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    Introduction: the young people and agriculture ‘problem’ in Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    This article argues that policy framing and policy responses to the ‘problem’ of young people and agriculture in Africa are hampered by a lack of research and evidence that is theoretically and historically informed, conceptually sound and context sensitive. The result is policy that is good intentioned, but unlikely to address the underlying social or agricultural concerns.

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