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Agriculture is the Backbone of African Economies but:Land productivity is less than 55% of world average yields for rice and 34% for maize.Labor productivity is less than 60% of that in Asia and Latin America.Share of global agricultural exports fell from 15% in the mid-1960s to less than 4% c
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1. Regional Value Chain Development and Promotion in AfricaECA-AUC-FAO An ECA Presentation at the
Seventh Session of the Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development (CFSSD-7) and
the Africa Regional Preparatory Conference for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ( Rio+20)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
20 October, 2011