Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants

Samuel Benin

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Abstract: Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout Africa, since the majority of the continent’s poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Despite these strategies, agricultural growth in Africa lags behind overall economic growth, and agricultural performance falls below that of other developing regions of the world, particularly those associated with Asia’s Green Revolution. Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Trends, Patterns, and Determinants, an edited volume written by research and data experts, brings together historical and current data on various characteristics of African agriculture, and presents new and updated analyses of agricultural productivity trends across countries and subregions. The book aims to improve understanding and explain trends in African agricultural productivity to identify opportunities for raising productivity and accelerating growth.

Keywords: productivity; labour; agricultural policies; agricultural growth; land use; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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