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Agriculture, Marketing, and Pricing in Sub-Saharan Africa : John C de Wilde
Author: Agriculture, Marketing, and Pricing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: John Charles De WildePublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Research report on agricultural sector and state intervention in agricultural marketing and agricultural price in Africa south of Sahara - discusses shortcomings of the agricultural project approach; includes case studies of Ghana, the Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia; examines availability of land and labour force, climatic influence, price structure, incentives, farmers' attitudes towards price changes, etc.; lists recommendations. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Administering Food Producer Prices in Africa
Author: Ojetunji AboyadePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 9780896293045
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Introduction; The incentives system; Some african cases; Toward policy restructuring.
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Author: Wallace C. OlsenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801426773
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the primary journals, report series, and monographs of current importance to the developed industrial countries as well as those in the Third World.
Food Aid and the African Food Crisis
Author: Shahla ShapouriPublisher:
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Category : Food relief
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Foreign Agricultural Economic Report
Author: U.S. Imprints on Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Transforming Southern African Agriculture
Author: Ann Willcox SeidmanPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865431324
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Living Under Contract
Author: Peter D. LittlePublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299140649
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organizing peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops--from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice--under contract to agribusinesses, exporters, and processers. The proliferation of African growers producing under contract is in fact part of broader changes in the global agro-food system. In this examination of agricultural restructuring and its effect upon various African societies, editors Peter Little and Michael Watts bring together anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists to explore the origins, forms, and consequences of contract production in several African countries, particularly Kenya, the Gambia, Zimbabwe, and the Ivory Coast. Documenting how contract production links farmers, agribusiness, and the state, the contributors examine problematic aspects of this method of agrarian reform. Their case studies, based on long-term field work and analysis on the village and household level, chart the complex effects of contract production on the organization of work and the labor process, rural inequality, gender relations, labor markets, local accumulation strategies, and regional development. Living Under Contract reveals that contract farming represents a distinctive form in which African growers are incorporated into national and world markets. Contract production, which has been a central feature of the agricultural landscape in the advanced capitalist states, is an emerging strategy for "capturing peasants" and for confronting the agrarian question in the late twentieth century.
Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization: A Framework for Africa
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251308713
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This framework presents ten interrelated principles/elements to guide Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Africa (SAMA). Further, it presents the technical issues to be considered under SAMA and the options to be analysed at the country and sub regional levels. The ten key elements required in a framework for SAMA are as follows: The analysis in the framework calls for a specific approach, involving learning from other parts of the world where significant transformation of the agricultural mechanization sector has already occurred within a three-to-four decade time frame, and developing policies and programmes to realize Africa’s aspirations of Zero Hunger by 2025. This approach entails the identification and prioritization of relevant and interrelated elements to help countries develop strategies and practical development plans that create synergies in line with their agricultural transformation plans. Given the unique characteristics of each country and the diverse needs of Africa due to the ecological heterogeneity and the wide range of farm sizes, the framework avoids being prescriptive.