A History Of Agriculture In West Africa

Author : Santosh C. Saha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Agriculture in West Africa written by Santosh C. Saha and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bibliography on West Africa which covers the years up to 1988 and seeks to play a double role as: firstly a tool for scholarly research in the field of agriculture, which is an economic sector vital for the growth of the general economy of West Africa, and, secondly a teaching aid for those who may require such an instrument in agriculture and related fields. Areas covered include: agricultural finance; capital; credit; agricultural labour and rural manpower; environmental economics; human resources development; agricultural products; demand, supply, and prices; land tenure; marketing; public policy and programs; technological change; and socio-economic research.

Author : Haggblade, Steven
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0801895030
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Successes in African Agriculture written by Haggblade, Steven and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub—Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. Because most Africans work in agriculture, escaping such dire poverty depends on increased agricultural productivity to raise rural incomes, lower food prices, and stimulate growth in other economic sectors. Per capita agricultural production in sub—Saharan Africa has fallen, however, for much of the past half—century. Successes in African Agriculture investigates how to reverse this decline. Instead of cataloging failures, as many past studies have done, this book identifies episodes of successful agricultural growth in Africa and identifies processes, practices, and policies for accelerated growth in the future. The individual studies follow developments in, among other areas, the farming of maize in East and Southern Africa, cassava across the middle belt of Africa, cotton in West Africa, horticulture in Kenya, and dairying in East Africa. Drawing on these case studies and on consultations with agricultural specialists and politicians from across sub—Saharan Africa -- undertaken in collaboration with the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development -- the contributors identify two key determinants of positive agricultural performance: agricultural research to provide more productive and sustainable technologies to farmers and a policy framework that fosters market incentives for increasing production. The contributors discuss how the public and private sectors can best coordinate the convergence of both factors. Given current concerns about global food security, this book provides timely and important resources to policymakers and development specialists concerned with reversing the negative trends in food insecurity and poverty in Africa.

Author : Paul Richards
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Agricultural Revolution written by Paul Richards and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1985-07-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic analysis, relationship between food production and environmental science, agricultural development based on local level innovations, West Africa - agricultural research and agricultural policies during colonialism, ecology of farming systems, case studies of Nigeria and Sierra Leone, agricultural technology needs of peasant farmers, agricultural extension, agricultural training, role of participatory research. Bibliography, graphs, maps, photographs, statistical tables.

Author : O. T. Faulkner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107625351
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West African Agriculture written by O. T. Faulkner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1933, this book provides candidates for British government service in West Africa with information on agricultural practice in the region.

Author : Marcel Mazoyer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583674918
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of World Agriculture written by Marcel Mazoyer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.

Author : Robin Law
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184701075X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa written by Robin Law and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.

Author : Muey C. Saeteurn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580469795
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Their Own written by Muey C. Saeteurn and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the consequences of agricultural development in western Kenya in the 1950s and 1960s

Author : M. A. Havinden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Crop Cultivation in West-Africa written by M. A. Havinden and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. G. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317868935
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Economic History of West Africa written by A. G. Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies.

Author : Edda L. Fields-Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002966
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Roots written by Edda L. Fields-Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.