An African Green Revolution
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An African Green Revolution
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Author : Keijiro Otsuka
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-22
An African Green Revolution written by Keijiro Otsuka and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-22 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
Innovations As Key To The Green Revolution In Africa
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Author : Andre Bationo
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-08-30
Innovations As Key To The Green Revolution In Africa written by Andre Bationo and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
Africa S Green Revolution
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Author : William G. Moseley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Africa S Green Revolution written by William G. Moseley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
In Pursuit Of An African Green Revolution
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Author : Keijiro Otsuka
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-11-24
In Pursuit Of An African Green Revolution written by Keijiro Otsuka and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-24 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Seeding An African Green Revolution
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Author : Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Seeding An African Green Revolution written by Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Food security categories.
The African Food Crisis
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The African Food Crisis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Agriculture categories.
Unmasking The New Green Revolution In Africa
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Author : Elenita C. Daño
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Unmasking The New Green Revolution In Africa written by Elenita C. Daño and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Agriculture categories.
Rice Green Revolution In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Keijiro Otsuka
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-01
Rice Green Revolution In Sub Saharan Africa written by Keijiro Otsuka and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-01 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Going Beyond Demos To Transform African Agriculture
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Author : Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Going Beyond Demos To Transform African Agriculture written by Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Soil fertility categories.
Norman Borlaug and his colleagues, when developing the Asian Green Revolution, did not have an organization behind them like the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Its founding 10 years ago was a smart thing to do. H. E. Kofi Annan sounded the call for a uniquely African Green Revolution on July 5, 2004, at a meeting of Heads of State in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Not long afterwards, AGRA was established. Given the complexity of the challenges involved, AGRA had to be invented from scratch because no such institution existed before.At its start, AGRA focused on four main components of what a Green Revolution needed most: seeds, soils, markets and policy. How to overcome nutrient depletion and soil compaction so common in most smallholder farms of sub-Saharan Africa is a major challenge in itself ¿ not something that the Asian Green Revolution had to face. African soils are now unhealthy and this has been directly related to unhealthy people. And largely because of that, cereal yields in sub-Saharan Africa hovered around 1 MT/ha, the lowest of any region of the world. AGRA has stimulated what is now an organic movement composed of farmers,farmer associations, NGOs, policymakers, scientists and advocates from the private and public sectors throughout Africa and beyond.AGRA¿s Soil Health Program (SHP) started with a bang at the Africa Fertilizer Summit held in Abuja in June, 2006. This gathering created awareness of the need for increased use of mineral fertilizers (from about 8 kg/ha to 50 kg/ha) as the key vehicle for overcoming soil fertility depletion. Commitments made at the Summit and follow-up actions resulted in the average fertilizer use in Africa increasing from 8 kg of actual NPK fertilizers per hectare at that time to the current level of 16 kg/ha, a good first step. Several of us soil scientists attending the Summit felt that, for the first time, people were listening to us.
Alliance For A Green Revolution In Africa 2017 Seeding An African Green Revolution
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Author : Agra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03
Alliance For A Green Revolution In Africa 2017 Seeding An African Green Revolution written by Agra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with categories.