Awakening Africa's sleeping giant [[electronic resource] ] : prospects for commercial agriculture in the Guinea Savannah zone and beyond

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank; Rome, Italy, : FAO, : Cooperazione italiana allo sviluppo, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1096652
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - Economic aspects - Guinea
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introductions and objectives -- Past experience : Asia and Latin America vs. Sub-Saharan Africa -- Outlook for commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Commodity-specific competitiveness analysis -- Factors affecting the competitiveness of African agriculture -- Potential social and environmental impacts of commercial agriculture -- Conclusions and recommendations : opportunities and challenges.
• Sommario/riassunto: Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries-Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia-the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to
• Titolo autorizzato: Awakening Africa's sleeping giant
• ISBN: 1-282-15418-4; 1-282-18402-4; 9786612184024; 9786612154188; 0-8213-7942-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454562203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). . -Agriculture and rural development.