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Building on successes in African agriculture

Agricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. Seventy percent...

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Main Author: Haggblade, Steven
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2004
Subjects:
collective behavior
property rights
public goods
agroforestry
irrigation
fisheries
forest management
rangelands
plant genetic resources
pest management
watersheds
extension
agricultural extension
collective action
maize
cassava
cotton
small farms
dairying
natural resources management
agricultural policies
sustainability
horticulture
exports
extension-research linkages
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157533
Summary:Agricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. Seventy percent of all Africans— and nearly 90 percent of the poor—work primarily in agriculture. As consumers, all of Africa’s poor—both urban and rural—count heavily on the efficiency of the continent’s farmers.

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