In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Otsuka, Keijiro (Editor), Larson, Donald F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy ; 48
• Subjects: International economics.; Development economics.; Agricultural economics.; Economics.; Agricultural Economics.; Development Economics.; International Economics.

This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has already begun in many irrigated are...