Well-functioning factor and product markets can provide the poor, particularly smallholder farmers and the landless, with avenues for wealth creation, thereby expediting poverty and food insecurity alleviation. Yet in ...

Poverty in Africa has been found to be predominantly a rural phenomenon. About 75 percent of the world’s poor are believed to work and live in rural areas, and it is estimated that, by the year 2020, 60 percent of the poor ...

It has become a general trend in the world that countries with similar political, regional, cultural, social, economic aspects and needs are merging into economic blocks. The reasons for this phenomenon are varied ...

Agricultural growth is important for alleviation of poverty and stimulation of economic growth and development. Sustainable poverty reduction can only be possible through economic growth and development strategies. The ...

Agricultural growth, especially in the early phases of development, is fundamental to broader economic growth and successful poverty reduction. This is because of high concentration of the poor in this sector, its strong ...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench), is a cereal crop quantitatively ranked the world’s fifth most important cereal grain after wheat, maize, rice and barley. Sorghum cultivation is mainly practised in developing countries ...

Governments in Eastern and Southern Africa have fundamentally transformed their food economies over the past decade. This restructuring has taken place amidst severe macroeconomic crises and periodic drought. Despite the ...

Abstract: Credit constraint among small holder farmers still remains one of the impediments to the much needed increase in agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. Without these constraints, farmers would be ...

Executive summary: The agricultural sector in Kenya contributes about 25.4% of GDP, supports nearly 80% of the rural population and accounts for 65% of total exports (RoK, 2015). Despite the importance of the sector to ...

Abstract Citizen participation is widely recognized as a critical strategy for improving governance as it is seen to increase the efficiency of public service delivery, government responsiveness to local needs, and ...