Food Policy, the journal I have the privilege and the pleasure of co-editing with my Bologna colleague Mario Mazzocchi, has a new special issue which should be of interest to readers of this blog.
The topic is “Agriculture in Africa–Telling Myths from Facts,” the special issue was guest edited by the World Bank’s Luc Christiaensen, and there is a lot of good stuff in there if you are working on agricultural development. And the best part is that it is all open access thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Here is the table of contents:
Agriculture in Africa–Telling myths from facts: A Synthesis
Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Agricultural intensification: The status in six African countries
How much of the labor in African agriculture is provided by women?
Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?
Agricultural input credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: Telling myth from facts
Food price seasonality in Africa: Measurement and extent
Labor productivity and employment gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa
Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence
ht: @JeffBloem, for making me notice that it was all open access and @EatPodcast for reminding me that Luc Christiaensen was guest editor.