Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
Contents: 1. An Overview Keijiro Otsuka, Donald F. Larson, and Peter B. R. Hazell Part I: Climate and the Transferability of Asian Green Revolution to Sub-Saharan Africa 2. Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution in Rice Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka 3. The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-Scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa Yuko Nakano, Ibrahim Bamba, Aliou Diagne, Keijiro Otsuka, and Kei Kajisa 4. The Declining Impacts of Climate on Crop Yields during the Green Revolution in India, 1972-2002