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Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants: Synopsis

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  • Benin, Samuel

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Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout Africa, since the majority of the continent’s poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Despite these strategies, agricultural growth in Africa lags behind overall economic growth, and agricultural performance falls below that of other developing regions of the world, particularly those associated with Asia’s Green Revolution. Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Trends, Patterns, and Determinants, an edited volume written by research and data experts, brings together historical and current data on various characteristics of African agriculture, and presents new and updated analyses of agricultural productivity trends across countries and subregions. The book aims to improve understanding and explain trends in African agricultural productivity to identify opportunities for raising productivity and accelerating growth.

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  • Benin, Samuel, 2016. "Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants: Synopsis," IFPRI synopses 9780896298828, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Dorinet, Elizavetta & Jouvet, Pierre-André & Wolfersberger, Julien, 2021. "Is the agricultural sector cursed too? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 140(C).
    2. Oliver K. Kirui & Lukas Kornher & Maksud Bekchanov, 2023. "Productivity growth and the role of mechanisation in African agriculture," Agrekon, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(1), pages 80-97, January.
    3. Kirui, Oliver K. & Kornher, Lukas & Bekchanov, Maksud, 2023. "Productivity growth and the role of mechanisation in African agriculture," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 62(1), February.
    4. Giller, Ken E. & Andersson, Jens & Delaune, Thomas & Silva, João Vasco & Descheemaeker, Katrien & van de Ven, Gerrie & Schut, Antonius G.T. & van Wijk, Mark & Hammond, Jim & Hochman, Zvi & Taulya, God, 2022. "IFAD Research Series 83: The future of farming: who will produce our food?," IFAD Research Series 322005, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
    5. Matchaya, Greenwell C. & Tadesse, Getaw & Kuteya, Auckland N., 2022. "Rainfall shocks and crop productivity in Zambia: Implication for agricultural water risk management," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 269(C).

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    Keywords

    AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA; AFRICA; productivity; labor; agricultural policies; agricultural growth; land ownership; land use; total factor productivity; Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP); D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital; Total Factor; and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity; Q18 Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Q15 Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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