Background Highlights, Decades after my Research:
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In view of the inherent challenges, sector productivity in the sub-region has been rising since the 1980s, though at a very gradual pace.
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Agricultural research, assisted by policy reforms that improved economic incentives to farmers, has contributed to spurring adoption of new/innovative technologies, representing a key driver for increased productivity in the Sub-region’s agricultural sector.
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Despite these gains, productivity growth continue to remain well below that of other developing countries who were also on the strive to rise; and thus, those formidable challenges which persisted, served to hinder the narrowing of intrinsic gaps.
- AGRIFERT’s take: R&D outputs are meant to expand innovation results and outcomes for greater impact on end users. It may be necessary to contextualize or decipher what those decades (lost) of un-utilized research data would have done in effect if applied adequately to local circumstances? It becomes of great necessity to keep food and agricultural policy in the center of the region’s productivity growth processes… but no need to look back, it would be of greater significance to draw and apply lessons for the good of SSA’s future. Donor coordination can’t be stressed enough as a missing piece.
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