Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge, Mass., : CABI, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (396 p.)
Disciplina	338.10967
Altri autori (Persone)	DjurfeldtGöran <1945-> AryeeteyErnest <1955-> IsinikaAida C. <1951->
Soggetto topico	Agriculture - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Agriculture and state - Africa, Sub-Saharan Agricultural development projects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Food supply - Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN	1-282-98702-X 9786612987021 1-84593-717-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	African agriculture: from crisis to development? / Hans Holmen and Goran Hyden -- The millennium goals, the state and macro level performance: an overview / Hans Holmen -- Smallholders caught in poverty: flickering signs of agricultural dynamism / Magnus Jirstrom, Agnes Andersson and Goran Djurfeldt -- A new era for Sub-Saharan African agriculture? Changing drivers of maize production / Agnes Andersson ... [et al.] -- Maize remittances, market participation and consumption among smallholders in Africa / Agnes Andersson -- Meeting the financial needs of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia / Wolday Amha -- Agricultural diversification, food self sufficiency and food security in Ghana: the role of infrastructure and institutions / Fred M. Dzanku and Daniel Sarpong -- Conditions for achieving sustained agricultural intensification in Africa: evidence from Kenya / Stephen k. Wambugu, Joseph T. Karugia and Willis Oluoch-Kosura -- The fertilizer support programme and the millennium development challenge in Zambia: is government a problem solution? / Hyde Haantuba, Mukata Wamulume and Richard Bwalya -- Has the Nigerian green revolution veered off track? / Tunji Akande ... [et al.] -- Addressing food self sufficiency in Tanzania: a balancing act of policy coordination / Aida C. Isinika and Elibariki E. Msuya -- Focusing on the majority: rethinking agricultural development in Mozambique / Peter E. Coughlin -- Conclusions: What direction for the future of African agriculture / Ernest Aryeetey, Goran Djurfeldt and Aida C. Isinika.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910446350703321

Autore	Diop Cheikh Anta
Edizione	[Rev. ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (144 p.)
Disciplina	330.967
Soggetto topico	Pan-Africanism Industries - Africa, Sub-Saharan Power resources - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61374-737-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword to the English Edition; Toward An African Energy Doctrine; Bases For African-Arab Cooperation; Introduction; Part I: Historical Unity: The Restoration of African Historical Consciousness; Chapter 1 Origins and History of the Black World; Chapter 2 Linguistic Unity; Chapter 3 Political Unity and Federalism; Chapter 4 The Privileged Position of West Africa; Chapter 5 The New Strategy; Chapter 6 Bicameralism; Part II: Compendium of Energy Sources; Hydraulic Energy; Solar Energy; Atomic Energy; Thermonuclear Energy; Wind Energy Thermal Energy of the SeasTidal Energy; Global Heat; Volcanic Thermal Energy and Geothermal Energy; Part III: The Industrialization of Black Africa; The Zaire River Basin; The Gulf of Benin Region; Ghana and the Ivory Coast; Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia; Tropical Zone (Senegal, Mali, Niger); Nilotic Sudan, Great Lakes, Ethiopia; Zambezi River Basin; Union of South Africa; Transport; Training Key Personnel; Conclusion; Investment Funds; Scientific Research; Comparative Production Figures; 14 Steps to African Unity; Books Consulted; Appendix: Interviews with Cheikh Anta Diop
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453764303321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (205 p.)
Disciplina	304.6/0967
Collana	Population dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-19604-1 9786610196043 0-309-58556-2 0-585-08557-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455880103321

Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xxxii, 466 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	338.967
Collana	UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
Soggetto topico	Economic development - Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN	0-19-180595-5 0-19-106223-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2: Synthesis: Two Cheers for the African Growth Renaissance (but not Three) -- Part 1. Rapid Growth and Rapid Poverty Reduction -- 3: Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11: Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic Landscape -- 4: Ghana: Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years -- 5: Did Rapid Smallholder-Led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty? Making Sense of Malawiś Poverty Puzzle -- 6: Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Inequality in Rwanda -- 7: Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda: Explorations Using a New Set of Poverty Lines -- Part 2. Rapid Growth but Limited Poverty Reduction -- 8: Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian Trap -- 9: Mozambique: Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined? -- 10: Spatial and Temporal Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria -- 11: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania -- 12: Assessing Progress in Welfare Improvements in Zambia: A Multidimensional Approach -- Part 3. Uninspiring/Negative Growth and Poverty Reduction -- 13: Slow Progress in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon -- 14: The Fall of the Elephant: Two Decades of Poverty Increase in Cote d'Ivoire, 1988-2008 -- 15: Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty in Kenya: A Long-Term Perspective -- 16: Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks -- 17: Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Part 4. Low-Information Countries -- 18: Growth and Poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 2001 through 2013.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910136793203321

Autore	Farole Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (pages cm)
Disciplina	332.673096
Altri autori (Persone)	FaroleThomas WinklerDeborah
Collana	Directions in development
Soggetto topico	Investments, Foreign - Africa, Sub-Saharan Technology transfer - Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN	1-4648-0127-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Context, objectives, and methodology -- Conceptual framework -- The role of mediating factors for FDI spillovers in developing countries : Evidence from a global dataset -- Determining the nature and extent of spillovers : Empirical assessment -- Sector case study : mining -- Sector case study : agribusiness -- Sector case study : apparel -- Summary of main conclusions -- Policy implications.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910789151403321