This study identifies gaps and entry points to inform policy recommendations and strategic planning to make rural advisory services (RAS) more responsive to smallholders’ livelihood needs. It explores the status of RAS from a pluralistic and market-oriented system perspective, considering the three dimensions of service demand, service supply and the enabling envir...

This year's Africa development indicators, which covers some 1,700 macroeconomic, sectoral, and human development indicators dating to the 1960s, comes at a critical time for Sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries and 841 million people. After a decade of economic growth at nearly 5 percent a year, Africa-...

The Yearbook series is a result of joint efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development of a common harmonized database. The Joint African Statistical Yearbook is meant to break with the practices of the past where each regional/subregional organizatio...