Sustainable agricultural intensification in an era of rural transformation in Africa

TS Jayne, S Snapp, F Place, N Sitko - Global Food Security, 2019 - Elsevier
Drawing on Boserupian and induced innovation principles, this review explores how the
farm technologies and practices associated with integrated soil management and …

Humanizing aquaculture development: Putting social and human concerns at the center of future aquaculture development

C Brugere, T Bansal, F Kruijssen… - Journal of the World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with other aquaculture issues, attention to human and social dimensions is
lagging behind. Sectoral development, policy, and programmatic factors have created …

Fostering graduate employability: Rethinking Tanzania's university practices

SJ Mgaiwa - Sage Open, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Globalization, partly spurred by technological innovation such as artificial intelligence and
robotics, continues to disrupt not only economic trajectories and business models, especially …

What really works to improve learning in develo** countries? An analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews

DK Evans, A Popova - The World Bank Research Observer, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Over the course of just two years, at least six reviews have examined interventions that seek
to improve learning outcomes in develo** countries. Although the reviews ostensibly have …

Africa's evolving employment trends

FK Yeboah, TS Jayne - The Transformation of Rural Africa, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Using nationally representative data from nine countries, we document demographic and
employment trends in Africa's workforce based on full-time labour equivalents (FTE). The …

On the structural transformation of rural Africa

CB Barrett, L Christiaensen, M Sheahan… - Journal of African …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
From 2000 to 2014, per capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35% in real
terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress has happened while agricultural …

Girl child marriage as a risk factor for early childhood development and stunting

Y Efevbera, J Bhabha, PE Farmer, G Fink - Social Science & Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper quantitatively examines the intergenerational effects of girl child marriage, or the
developmental and health outcomes of children born to women who marry before age 18 …

[KNIHA][B] Generating employment in poor and fragile states: Evidence from labor market and entrepreneurship programs

C Blattman, L Ralston - 2017 - povertyactionlab.org
The world's poor—and programs to raise their incomes—are increasingly concentrated in
fragile states. We review the evidence on what interventions work, and whether stimulating …

Youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges, constraints and opportunities

L Fox, LW Senbet… - Journal of African …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
African demographics, economic structure, politics and globalisation trends combine into a
perfect storm for Africa's policy makers. The large cohort of youth entering Africa's labour …

[KNIHA][B] Industries without smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa reconsidered

R Newfarmer, J Page, F Tarp - 2019 - library.oapen.org
Structural transformation in Africa has become a hot topic. One of the earliest stylized facts of
development economics is that low-income countries have large differences in output per …