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African smallholders [electronic resource] : food crops, markets and policy / edited by Göran Djurfeldt, Ernest Aryeetey and Aida C. Isinika.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture and state--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Agriculture and state.
- Agricultural development projects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Agricultural development projects.
- Food supply--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Food supply.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (396 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on highly topical international research in a high-priority area, this book documents the farm-level effects of the reorientation of agricultural policies with different themes for the different countries such as micro-credit, infrastructure, cash crop production and food security. It discusses staple food production in sub-Saharan Africa and its response to changing geo-political, macro-economic and agricultural policy, to deepen our understanding of how agricultural development unfolds at farm level. It is a useful resource for all those researching or involved with food security, agri
- Contents:
- African agriculture: from crisis to development? / Hans Holmen and Goran Hyden
- The millennium goals, the state and macro level performance: an overview / Hans Holmen
- Smallholders caught in poverty: flickering signs of agricultural dynamism / Magnus Jirstrom, Agnes Andersson and Goran Djurfeldt
- A new era for Sub-Saharan African agriculture? Changing drivers of maize production / Agnes Andersson ... [et al.]
- Maize remittances, market participation and consumption among smallholders in Africa / Agnes Andersson
- Meeting the financial needs of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia / Wolday Amha
- Agricultural diversification, food self sufficiency and food security in Ghana: the role of infrastructure and institutions / Fred M. Dzanku and Daniel Sarpong
- Conditions for achieving sustained agricultural intensification in Africa: evidence from Kenya / Stephen k. Wambugu, Joseph T. Karugia and Willis Oluoch-Kosura
- The fertilizer support programme and the millennium development challenge in Zambia: is government a problem solution? / Hyde Haantuba, Mukata Wamulume and Richard Bwalya
- Has the Nigerian green revolution veered off track? / Tunji Akande ... [et al.]
- Addressing food self sufficiency in Tanzania: a balancing act of policy coordination / Aida C. Isinika and Elibariki E. Msuya
- Focusing on the majority: rethinking agricultural development in Mozambique / Peter E. Coughlin
- Conclusions: What direction for the future of African agriculture / Ernest Aryeetey, Goran Djurfeldt and Aida C. Isinika.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-98702-X
- 9786612987021
- 1-84593-717-1
- OCLC:
- 706115854
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