Building on successes in African agriculture

Briefings on African agricultural successes

Series of briefings from an IFPRI conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, December 1-3, 2003. The papers describe some of the main cases studied and the conclusions drawn.

The briefings include:

African Agriculture: Past Performance, Future Imperatives by Steven Haggblade, Peter Hazell, Ingrid Kirsten, and Richard Mkandawire
Generalising from Past Successes by Steven Haggblade
Recent Growth in African Cassava by Felix Nweke, Steven Haggblade, and Ballard Zulu
Maize Breeding in East and Southern Africa, 1900–2000 by Melinda Smale and T. S. Jayne
Mali’s White Revolution: Smallholder Cotton by James Tefft
Smallholder Dairy in Kenya by Margaret Ngigi
Are Kenya’s Horticultural Exports a Replicable Success Story?by Nicholas Minot and Margaret Ngigi
Strategies for Sustainable Natural Resource Management by Steven Franzel, Frank Place, Chris Reij, and Gelson Tembo
The Changing Policy Environment Facing African Agriculture by Francis Chigunta, Ross Herbert, Michael Johnson, and Richard Mkandawire
The Pretoria Statement on the Future of African Agriculture.

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