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  A green revolution in Africa: hope for hungry farmers?

  Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Winnepeg, 2006

  This paper explores the underlying definitions and assumptions present in the current search for new approaches to African agriculture, looking specifically at strategies for improving soil fertility.It advocates a farmer-centred approach that involves active participation of all relevant stakeholders, with the view that sustainable agricultural livelihoods need to be built from a foundation th
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  Reclaiming policy space: lessons from Malawi’s fertiliser subsidy programme

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  This case study argues that political context matters in agricultural development issues using the fertiliser subsidy scheme in Malawi as an example.
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  Farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  The suicide mortality rate for farmers in the Indian State of Maharashtra has quadrupled in the last decade, according to this research paper. Is agricultural dumping by the United States, declining agricultural investment, and a broader government withdrawal from agriculture driving smallholder farmers into desperation?
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  Agricultural production and soil nutrient mining in africa: implications for resource conservation and policy development

  International Fertilizer Development Center, 2006

  Agricultural development is vital to Africa’s economic growth, food security, and poverty alleviation.
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  Alternative approaches for promoting fertiliser use in Africa, with particular reference to the role of fertiliser subsidies

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005

  Promoting sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will require massive increases in the amounts of fertilisers used in agriculture.
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  Strategy options for the maize and fertiliser sectors of Eastern and Southern Africa

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005

  There is a global consensus that there is an urgent need for a “big push” agricultural strategy for Africa, acoording to this presentation given at DFID in July 2005. However, there is significant disagreement about how this should be accomplished, particularly with regard to food price support, price stabilisation, and input subsidies.
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  Farmers' demand for fertiliser in Sub-Saharan Africa

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005

  Agricultural productivity growth in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) is currently well below that required to meet food security and poverty reduction goals.
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  The emergence and spreading of an improved traditional soil and water conservation practice in Burkina Faso

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper examines the advantages, disadvantages and impacts of improved traditional planting pits (zaï) in Burkina Faso from the early 1980s.The zaï emerged in a context of recurrent droughts and frequent harvest failures, which triggered farmers to start improving this local practice.