Households and Market Competition
African governments need to boost agriculture on the continent to help feed the growing population by lending their support to technological advances, declared a senior representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) at the African Economic Conference in Addis Ababa on Wednesday.
The AfDB’s principal evaluation officer, Guy Blaise Nkamleu, presented a paper on “Extensification versus Intensification: Revisiting the Role of Land in African Agriculture Growth” in the Ethiopian capital. Read more
- Chair: Xiaoning Gong, Chief, Economic Statistics and National Accounts Section, UNECA
- Paper 1 - Household Credit, Consumption and Asset Growth in Urban Ethiopia - Abbi Kedir and Gamal Ibrahim, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, UK / UNECA
Discussant: Samuel Bwalya, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Ethiopia
- Paper 2 - Market Competition in Export Cash Crops and Farm Income - Nicholas Depetris Chauvin and Guido Porto, Dubai School of Government / Universidad de la Plata
Discussant: Ginette P. M. Camara, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Chad
- Paper 3 - Agricultural Sector Investment, Outsourcing and Political Risks: The Case of Kenya's Flower Trade with the EU - William Amponsah and Andrew Muhammad, School of Economic Development, Georgia Southern University, USA / US Department of Agriculture
Discussant: Souleymane Abdallah, Economic Affairs Officer, FIIS, EDND, UNECA
Did you know
By 2020, in some countries, yields from rainfed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%
