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Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture; in fact, agriculture and agribusiness comprise nearly half of Africa's gross domestic product (GDP). These enterprises require electricity to grow to their potential, while the expansion of rural energy services needs consumers with consistent power needs to serve as a reliable revenue source. Can agriculture and energy come together in Sub-Saharan Africa to offer a double dividend with benefits to enterprises, households, utilities, and private-sector service providers? This is the central question of this study. Combining agricultural load with other household and commercial power demand can increase the feasibility of extending the grid or creating opportunities for independent power producers and mini-grid operators. Drawing on a suite of case studies, this study offers insights on what it will take to operationalize the opportunities and address the challenges for power-agriculture integration in Africa.

Agricultural Sector Economics --- Agriculture --- Climate Change and Agriculture --- Electric Power --- Energy --- Energy Demand --- Irrigation --- Rural Development --- Rural Electrification --- Rural Services and Infrastructure --- Smallholders

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After a decade of crisis and stellar economic growth over the past five years, Cote d'Ivoire has now set its sight on becoming an emerging economy. Improving prospects for productive employment will be essential for socially sustainable growth and poverty reduction. The "Cote d'Ivoire Jobs Diagnostic: Employment, Productivity, and Inclusion for Poverty Reduction" report provides a comprehensive and multi-sectoral empirical analysis of employment challenges and opportunities to inform strategies and policy actions in Cote d'Ivoire. The report aims to expand policy discussions on employment from a focus on the number of jobs and unemployment to a broader attention on the quality, productivity and inclusiveness of jobs. It makes the case for a jobs strategy with a sharper poverty lens that would focus on raising labor productivity in agriculture and informal off-farm employment to foster structural transformation, while, in parallel, pursuing longer-term goals of expanding the thin formal sector.

Agricultural Productivity --- Education --- Employment --- Improving Labor Markets --- Job Creation --- Labor Market --- Labor Markets --- Poverty Reduction --- Rice --- Rural Development --- Rural Labor Markets --- Skills Development and Labor Force Training --- Smallholders --- Social Protection and Risk Management --- Social Protections and Labor --- Vocational & Technical Education

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Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum data requirements for the methodology are the availability of a household budget survey and a series of surveys with a comparable set of asset data also contained in the budget survey. The methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya.

Agricultural Production --- Developing Countries --- Health Services --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household Assets --- Household Level --- Malaria --- Millennium Development Goals --- National Level --- Policy --- Policy Research --- Policy Research Working Paper --- Population --- Population Policies --- Populations --- Poverty --- Poverty Reduction --- Progress --- Rural Areas --- Rural Development --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Smallholders --- Urban Areas --- Urban Poverty --- Workshop

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This paper provides the results of an international survey of practitioners with experience in facilitating the participation of African smallholder farmers in supply chains for higher-value and/or differentiated agricultural products. It explores their perceptions about the constraints inhibiting and the impacts associated with this supply chain participation. It also examines their perceptions about the factors affecting the success of project and policy interventions in this area, about how this success is and should be measured, and about the appropriate roles for national governments, the private sector, and development assistance entities in facilitating smallholder gains in this area. The results confirm a growing 'consensus' about institutional roles, yet suggest some ambiguity regarding the impacts of smallholder participation in higher-value supply chains and the appropriateness of the indicators most commonly used to gauge such impacts. The results also suggest a need to strengthen knowledge about both the 'old' and 'new' sets of constraints (and solutions) related to remunerative smallholder inclusion, in the form of the rising role of standards alongside more long-standing concerns about infrastructure and logistical links to markets.

Access to Finance --- Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems --- Agricultural products --- Agriculture --- Development assistance --- Economic Theory and Research --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- International Bank --- Labor Policies --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Market development --- Markets and Market Access --- Rural Development --- Smallholder --- Smallholder farmers --- Smallholder participation --- Smallholders --- Social Protections and Labor --- Supply chain --- Supply chains --- Marketing channels. --- Food industry and trade --- Food supply --- Farm produce --- Marketing

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In the future scenario for livestock development, there is a continuing role for smallholder producers, particular for dairy and small ruminants, relying heavily on grass and crop-residues, however in a growth mode, intensifying production, and enhancing the efficiency of resource use (less land, labor and feed resources per unit product). In particular improving the efficiency of converting feed into milk and meat will be critical to increase their income. Ensuring that happens will require technical solutions, in ensuring that feed rations are adequately balanced with the appropriate feedstuffs of adequate quality, and institutional solutions on how to provide smallholders access to high quality information and reliable supplies of sufficient quality feeds. Investment strategies will need to be purposefully tailored to fit these specific contexts. This study assesses where the demand for feed is likely to change the most, and where investments in feed are most likely to increase animal productivity and improve the livelihoods of those who raise livestock. The study focuses on smallholder ruminant-based livestock systems because they have potentially major transformative effects on the livelihoods of producers and others engaged in the related value chains. While pig and poultry enterprises typically play an important role in livelihoods at very low input levels, such as backyard scavenging poultry, they tend to be replaced very quickly by larger scale commercial units. In India for instance, broiler production moved from a few hundred birds per unit to units with a weekly turnover of ten to twenty thousand between 2001 and 2006.

Access to Information --- Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems --- Agriculture --- Animal Disease --- Animal Feed --- Beef --- Cattle --- Contract Farming --- Cotton --- Crop Yields --- Dairies & Dairying --- Dairy Products --- Degradation --- Dung --- Ecosystems --- Ethanol --- Farmland --- Food Production --- Food Security --- Grasslands --- Innovation --- Livestock & animal Husbandry --- Maize --- Marketing --- Natural Resources --- Nutrition --- Pastures --- Population Growth --- Poultry --- Price Volatility --- Private Sector --- Rice --- Rural Development --- Rural Markets --- Rural Policies and Institutions --- Seeds --- Smallholders --- Trees --- Weeds --- Wheat