Agriculture in Africa : telling myths from facts (English)

This report presents the insights obtained, organized around the confirmation (fact) or rebuttal (myth) of 16 frequently held perceptions. It is found that women do not contribute 60 to 80 percent of the work in Africa’s crop production, but rather less than half (40 percent in the six countries studied). And that farmers lose only 2 to 6 percent of their maize production after harvest, which stands in stark contrast to the much-touted 30 percent...

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Christiaensen,Luc;

Demery,Lionel;

Dillon,Brian;

Barrett,Christopher B.;

Deininger,Klaus W.;

Savastano,Sara;

Xia,Fang;

Adjognon,Guigonan Serge;

Liverpool-Tasie,Lenis Saweda O.;

Reardon,Thomas;

Carletto,Calogero;

Corral,Paul;

Guelfi,Anita;

McCullough,Ellen B.;

Palacios-Lopez,Amparo;

Kilic,Talip;

Davis,Benjamin K.;

Di Giuseppe,Stefania;

Zezza,Alberto;

Nagler,Paula;

Naude,Wim;

Sheahan,Megan Britney;

Binswanger-Mkhize,Hans P;

Omonona,Bolarin Titus;

Sanou,Awa;

Ogunleye,Wale Olatunji;

Miller,Daniel Charles;

Munoz Mora,Juan Carlos;

Nikoloski,Zlatko Slobodan;

Hill,Ruth;

Ndiaye,Moctar;

d’Hotel,Elodie Maitre;

Cotty,Tristan Le;

Kaminski,Jonathan;
Document Date
2018/06/01
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
127073
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2018/06/12
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Agriculture in Africa : telling myths from facts
Keywords
Agriculture

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Christiaensen,Luc; Demery,Lionel; Dillon,Brian; Barrett,Christopher B.; Deininger,Klaus W.; Savastano,Sara; Xia,Fang; Adjognon,Guigonan Serge; Liverpool-Tasie,Lenis Saweda O.; Reardon,Thomas; Carletto,Calogero; Corral,Paul; Guelfi,Anita; McCullough,Ellen B.; Palacios-Lopez,Amparo; Kilic,Talip; Davis,Benjamin K.; Di Giuseppe,Stefania; Zezza,Alberto; Nagler,Paula; Naude,Wim; Sheahan,Megan Britney; Binswanger-Mkhize,Hans P; Omonona,Bolarin Titus; Sanou,Awa; Ogunleye,Wale Olatunji; Miller,Daniel Charles; Munoz Mora,Juan Carlos; Nikoloski,Zlatko Slobodan; Hill,Ruth; Ndiaye,Moctar; d’Hotel,Elodie Maitre; Cotty,Tristan Le; Kaminski,Jonathan.

Agriculture in Africa : telling myths from facts (English). Agriculture and Rural Development|Directions in Development Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/681121528784639307

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