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Neglected Issues in the Decline of Africa’s Agriculture: Land Tenure, Land Distribution and R&D Constraints

In: From Adjustment to Development in Africa

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  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia

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Despite the region’s wealth of natural resources, food production across sub-Saharan Africa has grown more slowly than population growth since the late 1960s, leading to a worsening food crisis that has occasionally reached famine proportions. The growth rate of agricultural production, which averaged between 2 and 3 per cent annually during the 1960s, slowed down during the 1970s before rising modestly in the 1980s and early 1990s. During the 1970s, 13 SSA countries suffered absolute declines in agricultural production, while between 1980 and 1992 (year of a particularly severe drought) another eight countries witnessed further declines in food production despite numerous policy efforts aimed at giving a new impulse to the sector (see Chapters 2 and 5).

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  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia, 1994. "Neglected Issues in the Decline of Africa’s Agriculture: Land Tenure, Land Distribution and R&D Constraints," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Giovanni Andrea Cornia & Gerald K. Helleiner (ed.), From Adjustment to Development in Africa, chapter 11, pages 217-247, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23596-4_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23596-4_11
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    Cited by:

    1. Wayne Nafziger, 1996. "The Economics Of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Preliminary Approaches And Findings," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1996-119, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Howard White, 1996. "Adjustment in Africa," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 27(4), pages 785-815, October.
    3. Wayne Nafziger & Juha Auvinen, 1997. "War, Hunger, and Displacement: An Econometric Investigation into the Sources of Humanitarian Emergencies," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1997-142, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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