The African food crisis: lessons from the Asian Green Revolution [electronic resource] Edited by G. Djurfeldt, H. Holmén, M. Jirström, R. Larsson.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: CABI BooksPublisher: WallingfordUK CABI Publishing 2005Edition: 1Description: 266ppContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781845930974
- Indonesia
- food production
- East Africa
- Korea Republic
- West Africa
- subsaharan Africa
- Ghana
- ASEAN Countries
- Bangladesh
- South Korea
- SADC Countries
- Developing Countries
- sociology
- Zambia
- Nigeria
- Japan
- Taiwan
- Africa South of Sahara
- agricultural economics
- Asia
- India
- South East Asia
- Ethiopia
- APEC countries
- Southern Africa
- Abyssinia
- Tanganyika
- food security
- Nyasaland
- OECD Countries
- Commonwealth of Nations
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Philippines
- East Asia
- Africa
- agricultural production
- agricultural development
- ACP Countries
- Developed Countries
- Anglophone Africa
- Formosa
- green revolution
- South Asia
- social aspects
- Threshold Countries
- Least Developed Countries
- rural development
- Uganda
- Malawi
Why can Asia now feed its rapidly growing population, but Africa continues to experience famine? This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on case studies of eight African and eight Asian countries (focusing on the early part of the Green Revolution), this book presents a causal and explanatory model of Asian green revolutions. It discusses why such progress has been made in Asia, but has not yet occurred in Africa. It also examines the implications of the case studies for future development in Africa.
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