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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828218103321

Titolo

The African food crisis : lessons from the Asian Green Revolution / / edited by Goran Djurfeldt ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, England ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Pub., c2004

ISBN

1-280-73578-3

9786610735785

1-84593-097-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DjurfeldtGoran <1945->

Disciplina

630/.96

Soggetti

Agriculture - Asia

Green Revolution - Asia

Food supply - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""1 African Food Crisis � the Relevance of Asian Experiences""; ""2 Global Perspectives on Agricultural Development""; ""3 The State and Green Revolutions in East Asia""; ""4 The Puzzle of the Policy Shift � the Early Green Revolution in India, Indonesia and the Philippines""; ""5 Spurts in Production � Africa�s Limping Green Revolution""; ""6 The State and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa""; ""7 Crisis and Potential in Smallholder Food Production � Evidence from Micro Level""

""8 From Roller Coasters to Rocket Ships: the Role of Technology in African Agricultural Successes""""9 The Role of the State in the Nigerian Green Revolution""; ""10 Why the Early Promise for Rapid Increases in Maize Productivity in Kenya was not Sustained: Lessons for Sustainable Investment in Agriculture""; ""11 From Ujamaa to Structural Adjustment � Agricultural Intensification in Tanzania""; ""12 Smallholders and Structural Adjustment in Ghana""; ""13 Green Revolution and Regional Inequality: Implications of Asian Experience for Africa""; ""14 Conclusions and a Look Ahead""; ""Index""

""A""""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""Z""


Sommario/riassunto

This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers and with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies of eight African and eight Asian countries (focusing on the early part of the Green Revolution) were carried out. Based on these studies the book presents a causal and explanatory model of Asian green revolutions and discusses why it has occurred