{"id":12404,"date":"2017-03-30T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=12404"},"modified":"2017-03-30T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:12:15","slug":"special-issue-of-food-policy-agriculture-in-africa-telling-myths-from-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/12404","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture in Africa–Telling Myths from Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food Policy<\/em>, the journal I have the privilege and the pleasure of co-editing with my Bologna colleague Mario Mazzocchi, has a new special issue<\/a> which should be of interest to readers of this blog.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Here is the table of contents:<\/p>\n

Agriculture in Africa–Telling myths from facts: A Synthesis<\/a><\/p>\n

Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/a><\/p>\n

Agricultural intensification: The status in six African countries<\/a><\/p>\n

Is increasing inorganic fertilizer use for maize production in SSA a profitable proposition? Evidence from Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n

How much of the labor in African agriculture is provided by women?<\/a><\/p>\n

Smallholders\u2019 land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?<\/a><\/p>\n

Agricultural input credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: Telling myth from facts<\/a><\/p>\n

Agricultural commercialization and nutrition revisited: Empirical evidence from three African countries<\/a><\/p>\n

Food price seasonality in Africa: Measurement and extent<\/a><\/p>\n

Labor productivity and employment gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/a><\/p>\n

Are African households (not) leaving agriculture? Patterns of households\u2019 income sources in rural Sub-Saharan Africa<\/a><\/p>\n

Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence<\/a><\/p>\n

ht: @JeffBloem<\/a>, for making me notice that it was all open access and @EatPodcast<\/a> for reminding me that Luc Christiaensen was guest editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n

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