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Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa

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  • Siddig Umbadda
  • Ismail Elgizouli

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Although agriculture is important for the livelihood of most Africans, especially the poor, donors did not accord it a high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around five per cent, but continuously declined between 1981-2001, before picking up after the world food crisis in 2007-08. Aid recently became a top agenda in donors' priorities because of concerns about its effectiveness and also because of budget pressures in donor countries as well as queries raised by their tax payers.

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  • Siddig Umbadda & Ismail Elgizouli, 2013. "Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-081, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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