After a 30-year hiatus, large-scale irrigation projects have returned to the development
agenda in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the magnitude and drivers of past schemes' …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the …

Technical change, through the introduction of land‐enhancing conservation technologies, is
essential to economic growth in the Sahel. Tobit analysis was used to identify factors that …

African countries continue to import the same agricultural products that they produce locally.
Africa's dependence on food aid or importation is often a challenge to understand …

Economic development is dependant on factors including capital, labour force and natural
resources. Forests are natural resources which, if properly managed, can provide habitats …

This paper examines land use policy and agricultural water management in Africa from 1962
to 2011. For this purpose, data were gathered from Food and Agriculture Organization of the …

The present paper aims to estimate the areas equipped for irrigation and desirability of
agricultural water management in the world. For this purpose, all necessary information was …

Africa is severely affected by floods, with an increasing vulnerability to these events in the
most recent decades. Our improved preparation against and response to this hazard would …

Achieving rice self-sufficiency in West Africa will require an expansion of the irrigated rice
area under water-scarce conditions. However, little is known about how much area can be …

This paper examines village level experiences of “Green Revolution,” in four areas, one
each in northern and southern India and two in northern Nigeria. It argues that these have …