An African Green Revolution

Author : Keijiro Otsuka,Donald F. Larson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400757608

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An African Green Revolution by Keijiro Otsuka,Donald F. Larson Pdf

This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, half the population lived on less than on dollar a day, and a staggering one in three people and one third of all children were undernourished. Africa has abundant natural resources; agriculture provides most of its jobs, a third of national income and a larger portion of total export earnings. However the levels of land and labor productivity rank among the worst in the world. The book explains Africa’s productivity gap and proposes ways to close it, by examining recent experience in Africa and by drawing on lessons from Asia.

Author : William G. Moseley,Matthew A. Schnurr,Rachel Bezner-Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317288060

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Africa’s Green Revolution by William G. Moseley,Matthew A. Schnurr,Rachel Bezner-Kerr Pdf

This volume examines the dominant neoliberal agenda for agricultural development and hunger alleviation in Africa. The text reviews the history of African agricultural and food security policy in the post-colonial period, across a range of geographical contexts, in order to contextualise the productionist approach embedded in the much heralded New Green Revolution for Africa. This strategy, supported by a range of international agencies, promotes the use of hybrid seeds, fertilisers, and pesticides to boost crop production. This approach is underpinned by a new and unprecedented level of public–private partnerships as donors actively work to promote the private sector and build links between African farmers, input suppliers, agro-dealers, agro-processors, and retailers. On the consumer end, increased supermarket penetration into poorer neighbourhoods is proffered as a solution to urban food insecurity. The chapters in this volume complicate understandings of this new approach and raise serious questions about its effectiveness as a strategy for increasing food production and alleviating poverty across the continent. This book is based on a special issue of African Geographical Review.

Author : Andre Bationo,Boaz Waswa,Jeremiah M. Okeyo,Fredah Maina,Job Maguta Kihara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1363 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 904812543X

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Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa by Andre Bationo,Boaz Waswa,Jeremiah M. Okeyo,Fredah Maina,Job Maguta Kihara Pdf

Africa can achieve self sufficiency in food production through adoption of innovations in the agriculture sector. Numerous soil fertility and crop production technologies have been generated through research, however, wide adoption has been low. African farmers need better technologies, more sustainable practices, and fertilizers to improve and sustain their crop productivity and to prevent further degradation of agricultural lands. The agricultural sector also needs to be supported by functional institutions and policies that will be able to respond to emerging challenges of globalization and climate change.

Author : Keijiro Otsuka,Donald F. Larson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784431556930

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In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution by Keijiro Otsuka,Donald F. Larson Pdf

This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has already begun in many irrigated areas, using Asian-type modern varieties, chemical fertilizer, and improved management practices. Further, we find that the same technological package significantly increases the productivity and profitability of rice farming in rainfed areas as well. We also find evidence that that management training, when done well, can boost productivity on smallholder farms. This suggests that African governments can accelerate the pace of Africa’s Rice Revolution by strengthening extension capacity. The story for maize is wholly different, where most farmers use local varieties, apply little chemical fertilizer, and obtain very low yields. However, in the highly populated highlands of Kenya, a number of farmers have adopted high-yielding hybrid maize varieties and chemical fertilizer, as was the case in the Asian Green Revolution, apply manure produced by stall-fed cows, as was the case during the British Agricultural Revolution, and keep improved cows or cross-breeds from European cows and local stock, as was the case of the Indian White Revolution. We conclude that while rice in Africa has benefited from an Asian Green Revolution strategy that emphasizes modern seeds, inputs, and focused knowledge transfers, the success of Africa’s Maize Revolution will require a different system approach based on hybrid maize, chemical and organic fertilizers, and stall-fed cross-bred cows.

Author : Matthew A. Schnurr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228000457

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Africa's Gene Revolution by Matthew A. Schnurr Pdf

As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology. The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and political factors that shape our understanding of genetic modification, Africa's Gene Revolution surveys twenty years of efforts to use genomics-based breeding to enhance yields and livelihoods for African farmers. Matthew Schnurr considers the full range of biotechnologies currently in commercial use and those in development - including hybrids, marker-assisted breeding, tissue culture, and genetic engineering. Drawing on interviews with biotechnology experts alongside research conducted with more than two hundred farmers across eastern, western, and southern Africa, Schnurr reveals a profound incongruity between the optimistic rhetoric that accompanies genetic modification technology and the realities of the smallholder farmers who are its intended beneficiaries. Through the lens of political ecology, this book demonstrates that the current emphasis on improved seeds discounts the geographic, social, ecological, and economic contexts in which the producers of these crops operate. Bringing the voices of farmers to the foreground of this polarizing debate, Africa's Gene Revolution contends that meaningful change will come from a reconfiguration not only of the plant's genome, but of the entire agricultural system.

Author : Peter B.R. Hazell
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Asian Green Revolution by Peter B.R. Hazell Pdf

Author : Elenita C. Daño
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9832729084

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Unmasking the New Green Revolution in Africa by Elenita C. Daño Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780851992

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“The” African Food Crisis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620974230

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Eating Tomorrow by Timothy A. Wise Pdf

"A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.

Author : Paul Richards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000865165

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Indigenous Agricultural Revolution by Paul Richards Pdf

Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer. It advocates scientific research seeking out changes which are already taking place within the smallholder farming sector and building on local initiatives. Drawing on his experience of West Africa, the author demonstrates that many of the most successful innovations in food-crop production during the 20th century have indigenous roots and that there should therefore be less emphasis on ‘teaching’ farmers how to farm and more emphasis on how to foster and support local adaptation and inventiveness. This book will be of interest to students of agriculture, environmental studies and rural development as well as those working with relief and development agencies.

Author : D. Bräutigam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230374300

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Chinese Aid and African Development by D. Bräutigam Pdf

Since 1957, more than 45 African countries have received aid from China, yet until recently little has been known about the effectiveness or impact of this assistance. Bräutigam provides the first authoritative account of China's experience as an aid donor in rural Africa. In a detailed and highly readable analysis, the author draws on anthropology, economics, organization theory and political science to explain how China's domestic agenda shaped the design of its aid, and how domestic politics in African countries influenced its outcome.

Author : African Network for Soil Biology and Fertility. Symposium
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Green Revolution
ISBN : OCLC:1086233287

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Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa by African Network for Soil Biology and Fertility. Symposium Pdf

The African Network for Soil Biology and Fertility (AfNet) organized an International Symposium on Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa. This book presents the outcome of the symposium and outlines the challenges and opportunities for improving agricultural growth in Africa.

Author : Professor Dani Wadada Nabudere,Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Publisher : Real African Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920655310

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From Agriculture to Agricology by Professor Dani Wadada Nabudere,Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) Pdf

In this meditation, respected Ugandan academic Dani Wadada Nabudere traces the roots of the global economic crisis and warns of the threat that the decline of Western nations poses to the African continent—the final frontier for those in search of new lands and resources to exploit. As a deterrent to what he sees as the encroachment of super-profiteers looking to Africa for the land to increase their profits in industrial agriculture, Nabudere advocates for what he terms “community sites of knowledge,” that is, the use of indigenous tools and knowledge to revitalize the lives of Africa’s people. The book puts forth the belief that any dependence on imported knowledge and material instruments will only lead to the entrenchment of colonial stereotypes, and that indigenous knowledge is imbued with the roots of “complex ecosystems” that require the inputs of a diversity of expertise and experiences and that are capable of producing the knowledge necessary for the residents of the African continent to reclaim the future.

Author : Jacqueline A. Ignatova
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786996565

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Contesting Africa’s New Green Revolution by Jacqueline A. Ignatova Pdf

Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of 'pro-poor' innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of 'new Green Revolution for Africa' interventions and is also intimately linked to the rise of 'philanthrocapitalism,' which advances business solutions to address the problem of poverty. Through interviews with farmers, policymakers and agricultural scientists, Jacqueline Ignatova shows how efforts to transform the seed sector in northern Ghana – one of the key laboratories of this 'new Green Revolution' – may serve to exacerbate the inequality it was notionally intended to address. But she also argues that its effects in Ghana have been far more complex than either side of the debate has acknowledged, with local farmers proving adept at blending traditional and modern agricultural methods that subvert the interests of global agribusiness.

Author : Keijiro Otsuka,Yukichi Mano,Kazushi Takahashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811980466

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Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa by Keijiro Otsuka,Yukichi Mano,Kazushi Takahashi Pdf

This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice technology, whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in terms of topics, study periods, and study sites. It continues to show the significant impacts of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in intensification of rice farming, high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes, and the critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies, this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa.