African Land Ecology: Opportunities and Constraints for Agricultural Development

R. L. Voortman, B. G. J. S. Sonneveld and Michiel Alexander Keyzer

CID Working Papers from Center for International Development at Harvard University

Abstract: Current agriculture in Sub-Sahara Africa is undeveloped and the Green Revolution has left the continent largely untouched. Poor performance is often related to a number of socio-economic factors. In this paper we argue that there are also some specifities of natural resources, namely local homogeneity and spatial diversity of the pre-dominant Basement Complex soils, that imply that simple fertilizer strategies may not produce the yield increases obtained elsewhere.

Keywords: Sub-Sahara Africa, Agro-Ecology, Land use, Land resources, Basement Complex, Green Revolution, Micronutrients, Fertilizer Policy

JEL-codes: N57 O33 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2000-01
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