The monitoring of crop quantity and quality is vital for global food security. National food
security has recently been at the forefront of local and regional research, and has become a …

Background Antenatal care (ANC) services are critical for maternal health but Nigeria
performs poorly in ANC utilisation compared to other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This …

Nigeria is a country with a rapidly growing youthful population and the availability of good
quality education for all is a key priority in the sustainable development of the country. An …

The present paper, starting from evidence of low growth-to-poverty elasticity characterising
Africa, purports to identify the distributional changes that limited the pro-poor impact of the …

Purpose Despite a reduction in poverty the global population in 2015, the incidence of
poverty remains very high in Sub-Saharan African countries. Most of the countries in the …

Ghana is an exceptional case in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) landscape. Together with a
handful of other countries, Ghana offers the opportunity to analyze the distributional changes …

Resource-based livelihoods are uncertain and potentially unstable due to variability over
time, including seasonal variation: this instability threatens marginalised populations who …

We developed a land cover and land use map** framework specifically designed for
agricultural systems of the Sudan-Sahel region. The map** approach extracts information …

The female labor force participation (FLFP) has a strong and significant dis-equalizing
impact in at least three groups of develo** countries, and relatively low initial participation …

The development path of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past two decades has been
characterized by sluggish poverty reduction occurring alongside robust economic growth …