1. “We could increase yields in sub-Saharan Africa threefold tomorrow with off-the-shelf technology, ” says Kenneth Cassman, a well-regarded agronomist who researches potential yields.

2. By contrast, growth in export volumes in Sub-Saharan Africa averaged only 2 percent per year, in part because world trade of the products they export grew at half the rate of growth of world trade.

3. Societies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean are much more polygynous than the Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa.

4. So, actual irrigation water demand in Sub-Saharan Africa is, and will likely remain, a small fraction of that used in countries such as Australia, China, India and the United States.

5. In its native habitat, sub-Saharan Africa, the African rock python eats small mammals, antelope, warthog, herons, and other animals.

6. Forty-three of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, which is the heartland of malaria in terms of the number of cases and deaths and the severity of illness.

7. But in some places, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, families have moved away from rivers because they fear catching river blindness.

8. The rate is even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where girls and young women make up 71% of all young people living with HIV - essentially because prevention strategies are not reaching them.

9. Sub-Saharan Africa was not hit as hard by the economic crisis as the other regions of the world because its financial sector is small.

10. Sub-Saharan Africa and Ethiopia remain the most chronically underfed regions.

11. The big losers will be the undeveloped countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa.

12. Each year, the U.S. sends more than $1.8 billion in aid to sub-Saharan Africa.

13. The African wild dog, also called Cape hunting dog or painted dog, typically roams the open plains and sparse woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa.

14. Yet the reality is that much of the country is still unimaginably impoverished — a third of the world's poor live in India, more than in all of sub-Saharan Africa.

15. But it turns out that about 80 percent of the genes known to cause diseases in humans have counterparts in the genome of Xenopus tropicalis—the western clawed frog native to sub-Saharan Africa.

16. Lead author, Oxford researcher Dr. David Stuckler, says, "It's well known that miners have the highest risk of tuberculosis of any occupational group in the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa."

17. "AGOA also promotes economic cooperation and trade among the countries of sub-Saharan Africa by encouraging intraregional trade among AGOA beneficiary countries," Liser said.

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18. The animal, an omnivorous rodent with puffy cheeks and that chillingly familiar rat body and tail, weighs 10 to 15 pounds and thrives in colonies of up to 20 all over sub-Saharan Africa.

19. To develop a decision-support tool to help policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa assess whether intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) would be effective for local malaria control.

20. That's in stark contrast to other areas of the world, such as Latin America, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa, which use only about 2 percent of available water in their regions.

21. While the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa, rates in some South Asian countries are up there, too.

22. Another significant problem with the use of MARR to estimate water availability in Sub-Saharan Africa is that it excludes soil moisture derived from rainfall.

23. We must ensure that the sector continues to expand, sustainably, to provide more people with food and income, especially in areas like sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, where hunger and poverty prevail.

24. It does have, I think, the most severe inequality of any region in the world except for sub-Saharan Africa.

25. Family planning experts worry in particular about the looming population boom in sub-Saharan Africa.

26. This may confirm suspicions that parasitic worm infections like those common in parts of sub-Saharan Africa with unsanitary water supplies make people more vulnerable to HIV, Secor said.

27. Indeed many places, such as large parts of Western Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Australia, had no domesticable native species at all.

28. But the major question, is whether such new technologies would also benefit poor populations, such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa where TB, HIV/AIDS and malaria continue to affect millions.

29. Mortality from general anaesthesia alone is reported to be as high as one in 150 in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

30. Conventional animal breeding should be able to meet much of the anticipated doubling of demand for dairy and meat products in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but this may not be enough.

1. The big losers will be the undeveloped countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa.

31. By the end of 2005, more than half of all people receiving HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries resided in sub-Saharan Africa, up from one-quarter two years earlier.

32. Today it continues to expand in almost all world regions, with the notable exception of sub-Saharan Africa.

33. Fifty-seven countries, 36 of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, have severe shortages of health workers.

34. We need to abandon the water stress index as a way of defining water scarcity and insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, as it fundamentally misrepresents current and future water crises in the region.

35. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the number of researchers per million inhabitants, a key indicator of a country's scientific capability, grew by 18 per cent.

36. Efficacy of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

37. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, this will double the number of people receiving this lifesaving treatment.

38. If this could be implemented in sub-Saharan Africa, he told the Guardian, "the proportion of people with HIV would run to under 1% in less than 50 years".

39. Sub-Saharan Africa and other places in Asia and a few in Latin America are GAVI eligible countries, all of which are eligible to receive the pentavalent subsidy.

40. The countries most concerned are those where children are already dying in substantial numbers: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, in particular Bangladesh, and low-lying island states in the Pacific.

41. He also supported unsavory liberation movements and causes throughout the world,(http://) ranging from small opposition movements in sub-Saharan Africa to the Irish Republican Army.

42. According to the repot, the lowest tax rates are to be found in the Middle East and North Africa and highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, where a company on average pays over 60% of its profits as tax.

43. An estimated 72% of city-dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa live in slums.

44. The other alpha-thalassaemia mutation is prevalent in several populations in Oceania and South Asia, but much less common in sub-Saharan Africa.

45. In Sub-Saharan Africa, workers are only about one-twelfth as productive as those in developed countries, the report said.

46. But though the country has some of the worst sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa, its landfills are so picked over that there's not enough "good" waste to turn into electric power.