Africa’s Agriculture Today: Performance, Challenges, and Its Political Economy

Ayodele Odusola ()
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Chapter Chapter 3 in Africa's Agricultural Renaissance, 2021, pp 55-135 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Odusola assesses the current state of Africa’s agriculture by exploring the dynamic performances, opportunities, and challenges. He espouses that despite improvements in using modern inputs, Africa’s agricultural growth over the past two decades is driven neither by productivity nor by farm intensification, and the continent is experiencing a premature structural economic transformation. Odusola finds that approaches targeting input subsidies yield different development results and presents the hexagon of complex problems impeding Africa’s agriculture development. He uses the political economy lens to determine the vested interests and power relationships shaping agricultural reforms and explains why African leaders, amid all evidence, are not investing adequately in agricultural development, drawing lessons to drive an African agricultural renaissance for transformative, inclusive, and sustainable development.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65748-2_3

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