PROJECT
Productive diversification in African Agriculture and effects on resilience and nutrition
Type:
Research
Thematic:
Poverty and Sustainable livelihood
Location:
Salima
Funded by:
FAO
PI:
Blessings Chinsinga
Start Date:
Apr-2017
End Date:
Jun-2017
Duration:
2 months
Description:
The proposed study is a of a larger multi-partner assessment commissioned by the World Bank with the aim to assess the advantages and disadvantages of agricultural diversification from a productivity, resilience and nutrition perspective - to analyze the drivers of - and constraints to agricultural diversification as opposed to specialization, and to identify leverage points in domestic policies in- and outside the agricultural regulatory domain. The aim is to derive recommendations for improved national and regional policies.