A helping hand by the numbers

Africa’s growth is increasing but they are still struggling to feed their population. Björn Holmquist from the Department of Statistics participated in The focus is on the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving world hunger by 2015. This project engages researchers both at African universities and a number of researchers at Lund University and LUSEM. Together they examine and collect data on farming households over time. The project has been running for 10 years in different phases. In 2011 it entered phase 3. During this phase the project group focuses on income from sources external to the farm, such as trade and services outside of the household’s food production.
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