Successes in African agriculture: lessons for the future
Agricultural growth offers a potentially powerful tool for spearheading broad-based poverty reduction in Africa. In a continent where 70 percent of the poor work in agriculture, an upsurge in farm productivity contributes directly to broad increases in rural income. In addition, a prosperous agricul...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2010
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| author | Haggblade, Steven Hazell, Peter B. R. |
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| description | Agricultural growth offers a potentially powerful tool for spearheading broad-based poverty reduction in Africa. In a continent where 70 percent of the poor work in agriculture, an upsurge in farm productivity contributes directly to broad increases in rural income. In addition, a prosperous agriculture generates powerful growth linkages to the rest of the economy, providing cheap food, raw materials, and a growing demand for nascent processing and service industries. Even the urban poor, who spend the majority of their income on food, see their real incomes rise when growing agricultural productivity and output enable reduc-tions in staple food prices. Consequently, growing agricultural productivity attacks poverty from three different directions. It increases the productivity and incomes of the majority of Africa's poor, who work primarily in agriculture. It reduces food prices, which govern real incomes and poverty in urban areas, and generates important spill-overs to the rest of the economy. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1549462025-11-06T04:19:41Z Successes in African agriculture: lessons for the future Haggblade, Steven Hazell, Peter B. R. agricultural growth cassava pest control cotton maize high-yielding varieties horticulture dairying soil management agricultural research Agricultural growth offers a potentially powerful tool for spearheading broad-based poverty reduction in Africa. In a continent where 70 percent of the poor work in agriculture, an upsurge in farm productivity contributes directly to broad increases in rural income. In addition, a prosperous agriculture generates powerful growth linkages to the rest of the economy, providing cheap food, raw materials, and a growing demand for nascent processing and service industries. Even the urban poor, who spend the majority of their income on food, see their real incomes rise when growing agricultural productivity and output enable reduc-tions in staple food prices. Consequently, growing agricultural productivity attacks poverty from three different directions. It increases the productivity and incomes of the majority of Africa's poor, who work primarily in agriculture. It reduces food prices, which govern real incomes and poverty in urban areas, and generates important spill-overs to the rest of the economy. 2010 2024-10-01T14:05:02Z 2024-10-01T14:05:02Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154946 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152004 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Haggblade, Steven; Hazell, Peter B. R. 2010. Successes in African agriculture: lessons for the future. IFPRI Issue Brief 63. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154946 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural growth cassava pest control cotton maize high-yielding varieties horticulture dairying soil management agricultural research Haggblade, Steven Hazell, Peter B. R. Successes in African agriculture: lessons for the future |
| title | Successes in African agriculture: lessons for the future |
| title_full | Successes in African agriculture: lessons for the future |
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| title_short | Successes in African agriculture: lessons for the future |
| title_sort | successes in african agriculture lessons for the future |
| topic | agricultural growth cassava pest control cotton maize high-yielding varieties horticulture dairying soil management agricultural research |
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