Our GrowthCharts series explores, in brief graphical form, perspectives on key issues, concepts and needs related to the development of African agriculture.
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Global Maize Production: Where are we now and what can we learn?
Is there a connection between the national food systems and crop intensification patterns? The chart uses five Food System (FS) ...
Global Maize Production: Where are we now and what can we learn?
Is there a connection between the national food systems and crop intensification patterns? The chart uses five Food System (FS) categories (typologies) defined by a ...
Agricultural Development in Maize and Rice: Yield-Area Dynamics
Agricultural systems grow and evolve in different ways depending on pressures such as population demand, input availability, land resources, and climate conditions ...
From Development to Nutrition: Tailoring food systems for sustainable and nutritional outcomes
The Dual Challenge Today’s food production systems exist on a spectrum from small-scale, traditional farms to highly industrialized operations. Historically, the evolution of these systems ...
Africa’s crop diversity is a unique strength to explore
Regional crop production priorities ultimately govern the crop diversity achieved. Continents known for highly developed and large-scale production of wheat, maize, rice and soybean such ...
How much growth in grain production is needed for Africa?
According to UN population projections, Africa is expected to add another 2.3 billion people over the next 75 years …amounting to a total of 3.8 ...
Robusta Coffee Value Intensification: The Case for Good Agronomy
Optimizing value per harvested area should be a common goal but a host of factors can prevent it. At the farm-level, coffee farmers are limited ...