Full Description
This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa's agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements and agro-food cluster innovations. It is essential to go beyond a 'development bureaucracy' and a state-based approach to rural transformation, such as the one that often dominates policy debate in African government circles, organizations like the African Union and the UN, and donor agencies.
Contents
List of Figures, Maps, Photos and Tables
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken and Wijnand Klaver
Section 1 Mapping the Evidence
2 Mapping the Food Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lia van Wesenbeeck
3 Agricultural Pockets of Effectiveness in Africa
A Comparative Inventory of Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda since 2000
Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and André Leliveld
4 Food Production and Consumption in Relation to Food Insecurity and Undernutrition in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda
Wijnand Klaver
Section 2 Agricultural Production and Effectiveness
5 Dairy Clustering in Kenya
Diederik de Boer and Jackson Langat
6 Biofuel Feedstock Production in Ethiopia
Status, Challenges and Contributions
Maru Shete Bekele and Marcel Rutten
7 Local Careers and Mixed Fortunes in Africa's Globalizing Food Exports
The Case of Nile Perch from Lake Victoria, Uganda
Joost Beuving
Section 3 Drivers of Food Production
8 Pressures and Incentives
Urban Growth and Food Production at Tamale's Rural-Urban Interface
Sebastiaan Soeters
9 The Dynamics of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture
Diana Lee-Smith
10 From Suitcase Farmers to Telephone Farmers
Agriculture and Diversified Livelihoods among Urban Professionals
Melle Leenstra
Section 4 Institutional Issues
11 National Agricultural Research Systems in Africa
Olubunmi Abayomi Omotesho and Abraham Falola
12 Contributions of Small- and Large-Scale Farms and Foreign and Local Investments to Agricultural Growth
The Nigerian Example
Sheu-Usman Akanbi and Akinyinka Akinyoade
13 Loss and Damage from Droughts and Floods in Rural Africa
Kees van der Geest and Koko Warner
14 Agriculture and Nutrition
Linkages and Complementarities
Inge D. Brouwer
Appendix A
Selected Statistics of Major World Regions and Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Appendix B
Fifty Years of Agricultural and Food Dynamics in Africa - Statistical Data
