Africa's Emerging Maize Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa's Emerging Maize Revolution write by Derek Byerlee. This book was released on 1997. Africa's Emerging Maize Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intended for policymakers and scholars, the 15 contributions in this volume are divided into two sections: the first provides six country case studies of the evolving maize economies of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria. The second part synthesizes major technological, institutional, and policy issues with chapters on research and extension, soil fertility, seed and fertilizer delivery systems, and marketing and price policy. Paper edition (754-0), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Maize revolution in West and Central Africa
Maize revolution in West and Central Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maize revolution in West and Central Africa write by . This book was released on 2003. Maize revolution in West and Central Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution
In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution write by Keijiro Otsuka. This book was released on 2015-11-24. In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Neaning of the Maize Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Neaning of the Maize Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neaning of the Maize Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Elon Gilbert. This book was released on 1995. The Neaning of the Maize Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Africa’s Green Revolution
Africa’s Green Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa’s Green Revolution write by William G. Moseley. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Africa’s Green Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
