Agriculture as the Fulcrum of Inclusive Development in Africa

Ayodele Odusola ()
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Chapter Chapter 2 in Africa's Agricultural Renaissance, 2021, pp 15-54 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Odusola examines Africa’s untapped comparative advantages in agriculture, presenting why Africa must invest heavily in this sector, and surmises agriculture as an instrument to bring development to the doorstep of a majority of Africans by engendering food security, reducing poverty and inequality, and expanding job opportunities. He proposes options to rethink agriculture’s role as a multiplier for rural and national development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in a way that fosters people-prosperity-planet linkages. The chapter, however, notes that this link is not automatic but complex and multidimensional with productivity as the transmission mechanism. Odusola concludes that despite a high potential for food sufficiency, the current reality where food imports disproportionately drain scarce foreign reserves and outpaces ODA in Africa is synonymous with economic recklessness.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65748-2_2

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