African smallholders : food crops, markets and policy /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Economic aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Agriculture and state > Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Agricultural development > Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Food supply > Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Agriculture Economics.; Policy and Planning.; Agricultural households.; Agricultural policy.; Case studies.; Government policy.; Small farms.; Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions.; Electronic books.
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This book investigates how the changed agricultural policy climate affected government policies in the nine countries studied already as part of the preceding project: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. By repeating the cross-sectional survey made in ov...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Göran Djurfeldt, Ernest Aryeetey and Aida C. Isinika
• African agriculture : from crisis to development? / Hans Holmén and Göran Hydén
• The millennium goals, the state and macro-level performance : an overview / Hans Holmén
• Smallholders caught in poverty : flickering signs of agricultural dynamism / Magnus Jirström, Agnes Andersson and Göran Djurfeldt
• A new era for Sub-Saharan African agriculture? Changing drivers of maize production / Agnes Andersson, Göran Djurfeldt, Björn Holmquist, Magnus Jirström and Sultana Nasrin
• 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, Agnes Andersson, Göran Djurfeldt and Femi Ogundele
• 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, Göran Djurfeldt and Aida C. Isinika.