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Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural R&D for Groundnut, Pearl Millet, Pigeonpea, and Sorghum in West and Central Africa and Eastern and Southern Africa

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Title Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural R&D for Groundnut, Pearl Millet, Pigeonpea, and Sorghum in West and Central Africa and Eastern and Southern Africa
 
Creator Ndjeunga, J
Mausch, K
Simtowe, F
 
Subject Agricultural R&D
Millets
Pigeonpea
Groundnut
Sorghum
African Agriculture
 
Description Arable land in sub-Saharan Africa is often cultivated
during seasonal rains in regions where the supply
of rainfall exceeds the demand for rainfall for
only 2–7 months of the year. These rainfall supply
and demand conditions define rainfed agriculture
in the semi-arid tropics (SAT). In 1972,
the International Crops Research Institute for
the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) was established
in India with a global mandate to increase
agricultural production in the SAT, thereby enhancing
poor people’s welfare in these rainfall-unassured
production environments. Technically, the SAT encompassed large
areas of Australia, Latin America and Asia, but
the geographic focus at ICRISAT was always on
peninsular India and sub-Saharan Africa where
most rural and urban poor lived. By 2020, the
total population of people in Asia’s and Africa’s
SAT is projected to be about 850 million, comprising
a 70% share for Asia and a 30% share
evenly split between West and Central Africa and
East and Southern Africa (Walker, 2009). When
ICRISAT was founded in 1972, the relative importance
of the two continental populations was
about 80% for Asia’s SAT and 20% for Africa’s
SAT. The total SAT population in 1972 was only
about 35% of the projected population in 2020...
 
Publisher CGIAR and CAB International
 
Contributor Walker, T S
Alwang, J
 
Date 2015
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7351/1/Assessing%20the%20Effectiveness.pdf
Ndjeunga, J and Mausch, K and Simtowe, F (2015) Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural R&D for Groundnut, Pearl Millet, Pigeonpea, and Sorghum in West and Central Africa and Eastern and Southern Africa. In: Crop Improvement, Adoption and Impact of Improved Varieties in Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa. CGIAR and CAB International, UK, pp. 123-147. ISBN 9781780644011