Agriculture is one of the single most important economic activities among African countries. Thus, this article aims to discuss funding agriculture in Africa. This article provides a brief review of funding Agriculture in Africa. The article provides an overview of Agriculture in Africa while highlighting the government’s key contribution to agriculture through the input subsidy program. Further, the article examines funding Agriculture in Africa with focus on the key reasons for funding agriculture in the continent. The review unpacks the economic importance of agriculture, while stressing the need to focus on funding not only by development partners, but also governments!
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A Brief Review of Consumption of Biogas in the Context of Somalia
Authors: Anthony M. Wanjohi1 and Erastus K. Irungu2 1,2Kenya Projects Organization P.O. Box 15509-00503, Mbagathi, Nairobi-Kenya Corresponding Author Email: wanjohi@kenpro.org Abstract Despite technological advances, many people, particularly in developing countries’ rural areas, continue to meet their cooking energy needs by burning biomass resources such as crop residues, firewood, and animal dung in crude stoves. Such…
Basic Entrepreneurship Training Course Outline
By Anthony M. Wanjohi: This course will help you to develop your entrepreneurial skills and start a business that could give you a livelihood that can support you and your family. Your business will contribute to the economic activity in your community and you may even go on to employ others. This would be a…
Poverty Alleviation through Good Governance
By Anthony M. Wanjohi: Good Governance is a crosscutting critical facilitating strategy in the process of poverty reduction especially in developing countries. The issue of building the essential capacities of governance and public administration is more prominent in poverty reduction process. There are however some emerging issues in governance and public administration that require intergovernmental…
Measures to Address Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
By Anthony M. Wanjohi: The right to adequate food, like any other human right, imposes some obligations on the State: The state has obligation to respect existing access to adequate food. This requires the state not to take any measures that result in preventing such access. It also requires the state to ensure that third…
School Environmental Conservation Program, Kenya
Environmental conservation concerns the practice of humans to save the environment from collapsing, such as loss of species, ecosystems due to pollution and human activities. This program covers not only conservation of species but also the management of waste. The issue of poor waste management continues to threaten every positive gain made towards attaining sustainable…
Milk Processing Plant Feasibility Study in West Pokot County, Kenya
West Pokot County is one of the 47 Counties in Kenya, which is said to produce high quality milk. However, various challenges have continued to face the county including but not limited to poor milk pricing due to monopoly and lack of processing facilities which could handle the high quality milk produced in the region….
An Evaluation of Prisons Reforms Project in Nairobi, Kenya
The overall objective of this evaluation was to assess the Cafasso management structure, partnerships and operations of prisons reforms project in Nairobi as part of the CEI Grant end of project evaluation. The specific objectives of the evaluation was examine the following: organization management at Cafasso, project stakeholders and the project operations. The evaluation was …
Feasibility Study of Water Sources in Kajiado County, Kenya
Abstract: The study sought to examine the feasibility of establishment of water sources in Kajiado west constituency. The study adopted a survey research design. The sample size of the study included ninety (n=90) household representatives who had been trained by Nasaru Women Group Organization from the three wards and one (1) key informant, out of…
Viability of Fruit Farming in Kajiado County, Kenya
Abstract: The main purpose of this study was to examine the viability of fruit production, challenges, markets and measures that can be adopted to improve processed fruit production in Kajiado West Constituency. The study adopted a mixed research method. This method makes use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches which compliment each other. Simple random…