African smallholders [ food crops,markets and policy
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 discusse...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
CABI ,
c2011
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| Online Access: | https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2011/20113005550.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. African agriculture : from crisis to development?
- 3. The millennium goals, the state and macro level performance : an overview
- 4. Smallholders caught in poverty : flickering signs of agricultural dynamism
- 5. A new era for Sub-Saharan African agriculture? changing drivers of maize production
- 6. Maize remittances, market participation and consumption among smallholders in Africa
- 7. Meeting the financial needs of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
- 8. Agricultural diversification, food self sufficiency and food security in Ghana: the role of infrastructure and institutions
- 9. Conditions for achieving sustained agricultural intensification in Africa : evidence from Kenya
- 10. The fertilizer support programme and the millennium development challenge in Zambia : is government a problem solution?
- 11. Has the Nigerian green revolution veered off track?
- 12. Addressing food self sufficiency in Tanzania : a balancing act of policy coordination
- 13. Focusing on the majority: rethinking agricultural development in Mozambique
- 14. Conclusions : What direction for the future of African agriculture