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The intersection of youth access to land, migration and employment opportunities: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
(IFAD, 2019)
This paper examines the intersections between youth access to land, migration decisions and employment opportunities using nationally representative and multi-year data from multiple African countries. We document evidence ...
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Landscapes of rural youth opportunity
(IFAD, 2019)
This paper is motivated by the consistent portrayal, within current policy discourse, of agriculture and the broader rural economy in Africa as domains of opportunity for rural youth. It presents a new conceptualization ...
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Developing a gender intentional strategy for deployment of Male sterility (Ms44) mutant gene seed production technology for Africa. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Internal Discussion Paper
(CIMMYT, 2020)
Are there differences in men’s and women’s access to and use of fertilizer and hybrid maize seed in eastern and southern Africa? This article explores the issue through a systematic review of the extant literature on gender ...
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Out scaling climate-smart technologies to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia & Zimbabwe: feasibility study
(GIZ-ACCRA, 2018)
Climate variability and change is projected to increasingly affect smallholder farming systems in southern Africa and the maize value chain will particularly suffer from the late onset of and more erratic rainfalls. Heat ...
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Exploring opportunities around climate-smart breeding for future food and nutrition security
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2019)
Foresight activities that include participatory processes as well as careful analysis can help address the great uncertainties concerning the future of food systems and the role of crop and livestock breeding. There would ...
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Out scaling climate-smart technologies to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia & Zimbabwe: vulnerability assessment report
(CIMMYT, 2018)
This study examines the vulnerability to climate variability and change of the conventional maize value chain in the mid and low altitude agroecological zones of Malawi, agroecological zone II of Zambia and agroecological ...
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Out scaling climate-smart technologies to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia & Zimbabwe: piloting report
(CIMMYT, 2018)
To address increasing threats of climate change and declining soil fertility, a cross regional agronomic study was conducted in southern Africa, covering 19 onfarm communities in contrasting agroecologies ranging from ...
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Out scaling climate-smart technologies to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia & Zimbabwe: prioritization report
(CCARDESA, 2018)
Under the project “Out-scaling climate-smart technologies to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe” stakeholders aim to evaluate the impact of a changing climate on current farming systems and identify appropriate ...