Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Abstract: Underperformance of agriculture has been a major limitation of Africa's development. For most of the past two decades, both governments and donors, including the World Bank, have neglected the sector. The Bank's limited, and until recently declining, support to agriculture has not been strategically used to meet the diverse needs of a sector that requires coordinated interventions across a range of activities. Lending from the Bank has been sprinkled across various agricultural activities such as research, extension, credit, seeds, and policy reforms in rural space, but with insufficient recognition of the synergies among them. The Bank now has an opportunity, drawing on its comparative advantage as a multisector lending institution and as the single largest donor to African agriculture (during 1990-2005), to help ensure a coordinated and multifaceted approach to agriculture development in Africa.
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Report Type:
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Sector Study |
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Date:
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08/06/2007 |
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N/A |
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Subject:
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Agriculture |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Language:
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English |
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N/A |
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N/A |
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