African smallholders food crops, markets and policy /

African smallholders food crops, markets and policy / [electronic resource] : edited by Goran Djurfeldt, Ernest Aryeetey and Aida C. Isinika. - Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, 2011. - ix, 386 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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9781845937164 (electronic bk.)




Agriculture--Economic aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Agriculture and state--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Agricultural development projects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Food supply--Africa, Sub-Saharan.


Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions.


Electronic books.

HD2117 / .A37 2011

338.10967