African smallholders [[electronic resource] ] : food crops, markets and policy / / edited by Göran Djurfeldt, Ernest Aryeetey and Aida C. Isinika

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : CABI, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.10967
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Agriculture and state - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Agricultural development projects - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Food supply - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions
• Altri autori: DjurfeldtGöran <1945-> AryeeteyErnest <1955-> IsinikaAida C. <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: African smallholders
• ISBN: 1-282-98702-X; 9786612987021; 1-84593-717-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910446350703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II