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Agriculture as a Powerhouse of Inclusive Development in Africa

In: Africa's Agricultural Renaissance

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  • Ayodele Odusola

    (Level 8, Metropark Building 351 Francis Baard Street CBD)

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Odusola examines factors that can help agriculture play a powerhouse role for promoting employment, industrialization, and rural economic transformation, and reducing poverty and income inequality. In addition to assessing the labour reallocation across sectors, he investigates the push and pull factors that promote productive labour reallocation. The chapter analyses the poverty and income inequality–reducing power of agriculture and why some countries were able to use agriculture to accelerate reductions in both poverty and inequality, some managed to reduce either poverty or inequality, and why both indicators worsened in other countries. He finds that policies that help reduce poverty are not necessarily the same that reduce income inequality. Odusola, however, concludes that there is no automatic relationship between agricultural transformation and reductions in poverty and inequality.

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  • Ayodele Odusola, 2021. "Agriculture as a Powerhouse of Inclusive Development in Africa," Springer Books, in: Africa's Agricultural Renaissance, chapter 0, pages 193-217, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-65748-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65748-2_6
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