Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant
Title | Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Morris |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821379429 |
Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries--Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia--the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to.
Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant
Title | Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Morris |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780821379417 |
This book explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture.
Awakening Africa???s Sleeping Giant
Title | Awakening Africa???s Sleeping Giant PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Morris |
Publisher | |
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Release | 2012 |
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Stimulating agricultural growth is critical to reducing poverty in Africa. Commercial agriculture, potentially a powerful driver of agricultural growth, can develop along a number of pathways. Yet many developing regions have failed to progress very far along any of these pathways. Particularly in Africa, agriculture continues to lag. During the past 30 years the competitiveness of many African export crops has declined, and Africa's dependence on imported food crops has increased. While the poor performance of African agriculture can be attributed partly to adverse agroecological conditions, experience from elsewhere in the developing world suggests that significant progress is possible. The Guinea Savannah covers some 600 million hectares in Africa, of which about 400 million can be used for agriculture. Less than ten percent of this area is currently cropped, making it one of the largest underused agricultural land reserves in the world.
Will Africa Feed China?
Title | Will Africa Feed China? PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Brautigam |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2015-10-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199396876 |
Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China. In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? African governments are pushing hard for foreign capital, and China is building a portfolio of tools to allow its agribusiness firms to "go global." International concerns about "land grabbing" are well-justified. Yet to feed its own growing population, rural Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Moving from the halls of power in Beijing to remote irrigated rice paddies of Africa, Will Africa Feed China? introduces the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them. Their fascinating stories, and those of the African farmers and officials who are their counterparts, ground Brautigam's deeply informative, deftly balanced reporting. Forcefully argued and empirically rich, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work, shedding new light on China's evolving global quest for food security and Africa's possibilities for structural transformation.
Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa
Title | Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | John Anthony Allan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1857436695 |
Four other themes will addressed: politics, economics, the environment and the history of land investments in sub-Saharan Africa.
Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity
Title | Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity PDF eBook |
Author | J. Perry Gustafson |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2020-05-04 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0826274404 |
This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. These relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them steadily decrease humankind’s chances to achieve environmental stability on our fragile planet. The world population is projected to be nine to ten billion by 2050, signaling the need to increase world food production by more than 70 percent on the same amount of land currently under production—and this without further damaging our fragile environment. The essays in this collection, written by experts for laypersons, present the problems we face with clarity and assess our prospects for solving them, calling for action but holding out viable solutions.
How to Succeed in the African Market
Title | How to Succeed in the African Market PDF eBook |
Author | Winfred Oppong-Amoako |
Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2018-03-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1776092961 |
Home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Africa is a hot investment destination. More than 75 per cent of companies and investors in Africa are successful. Why? And how could you reap the benefits of doing business on the continent? In this book, business adviser, executive coach and author Winfred Oppong-Amoako presents a detailed picture of Africa’s investment environment, outlining the risks, challenges, misconceptions and opportunities, and providing a step-by-step guide for approaching the African market. The book covers key topics such as informal trading, China’s investment in the continent and the impact of recession on long-term GDP growth, and lays out certain factors that need to be taken into consideration before investing, such as cross-border trading, corruption, permits and legal contracts. If you’re new to investment or a successful businessperson looking to expand your brand, How to Succeed in the African Market is an indispensable reference, giving you the information that will enable you to make informed decisions and prosper.