Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies

Samuel Benin, Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan and James Thurlow

No 73, Issue briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: The 2000s were Africa’s “decade of growth.†Countries in Africa south of the Sahara reached milestones in the 21st century’s first decade that once seemed impossible, achieving improved governance, macroeconomic stability, and sustained economic growth that exceeded the region’s performance in previous decades. Among the economic sectors that improved was agriculture, which grew 3.4 percent per year over 2001-2010, outpacing Africa’s population growth rate, which was 2.5 percent, for the first time in the last three decades. Nevertheless, the agricultural sector’s growth has lagged behind national economic growth in Africa. Given

Keywords: economic growth; Agriculture; agricultural sector; farming; Poverty; Livestock; Rural development; Public investment; Agricultural growth; Public spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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