@article{Omamo:37881,
      recid = {37881},
      author = {Omamo, Steven Were and Diao, Xinshen and Wood, Stanley and  Chamberlin, Jordan and You, Liangzhi and Benin, Samuel and  Wood-Sichra, Ulrike and Tatwangire, Alex},
      title = {Strategic priorities for agricultural development in  Eastern and Central Africa},
      address = {2006},
      number = {605-2016-40179},
      series = {Research Report},
      pages = {154},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {In countries that are heavily dependent on agriculture for  employment and income, underperformance
is not only  untenable but also potentially explosive. This is the case  in the
countries of eastern and central Africa—Burundi,  Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Kenya,  Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda—where tens  of millions
of people face ongoing poverty, hunger, and  malnutrition. This report, the result of a
two-year  collaboration between the International Food Policy  Research Institute and the Association
for Strengthening  Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa,  identifies
how eastern and central African countries can  stimulate agricultural growth to address these
dire  circumstances.
The findings suggest that improved  agricultural performance will require investments  that
foster productivity growth, strengthen markets,  improve rural linkages between the agricultural
and  nonagricultural sectors, and promote regional cooperation.  Of particular interest is
the identification of the most  performance-enhancing commodity subsectors, in an  economywide
setting, and the “agricultural development  domain” singled out as most promising for
targeted  investment.
These results and their implications are being  widely discussed and debated in the countries
of eastern  and central Africa, in many cases shaping policy and  investment strategies.
We hope that the findings, made  available through this report, will elicit similar  responses in
other regions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/37881},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.37881},
}