India and Africa in the Global Agricultural System (1960-2050): Towards a New Sociotechnical Regime?

Bruno Dorin

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Abstract: The asynchronous but somewhat similar agricultural trajectories of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, especially India, are analysed over nearly a century (1961–2050). Millions of pieces of data available on the past (1961–2007) and on a plausible future (2006–50 projections by the Food and Agriculture Organization) are organised in a simple world food model where production, trade and consumption are aggregated and balanced in calories. Given the current and/or future land–labour relationships that characterise India and Africa, can these regions experience the same structural transformation that the developed countries went through, or work together towards a new sociotechnical regime by developing their own regionally differentiated labour-intensive production investments and technological capacities for economic, social, and ecological sustainability?

Keywords: Structural Transformation; Labour productivity; Agriculture; India; Subsaharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06-24
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Published in Economic and political weekly, 2017, 52 (25-26), pp.5-13

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