Entire Book

Book Chapters:

Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Preface
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Part I. Defining the Food and Nutrition Problem

Chapter 1: Strategic Issues in Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa
Christopher L. Delgado, John W. Mellor, and Malcolm J. Blackie
(PDF 727K)

Chapter 2: The Evolving Food Situation
Leonardo A. Paulino
(PDF 381K)

Chapter 3:The Nutrition Situation and Its Food Policy Links
Shubh K. Kumar
(PDF 407K)

Chapter 4: Commentary on Defining the Problem
Alexander P. Vamoer
(PDF 115K)



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Part II. Potential and Practice in Food Production Technology Development

Chapter 5: The West African Semiarid Tropics
Peter J. Matlon

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Chapter 6: Eastern and Southern Africa
Michael Collinson
(PDF 607K)

Chapter 7: The Humid and Subhumid Tropics
Coenrad H. H. ter Kuile
(PDF 347K)

Chapter 8: Identifying Technological Potentials
Frits W. T. Penning de Vries and Cornelis T. de Wit
(PDF 288K)

Chapter 9: Technological Change and Agricultural Labor Use
Christopher L. Delgado and Chandrashekhar G. Ranade
(PDF 499K)

Chapter 10: Women's Role and Agricultural Technology
Shubh K.Kumar
(PDF 436K)

Chapter 11: Development and Extension of Agricultural Production Technology
Guy Vallaeys, Pierre Silvestre, Malcolm J. Blackie, and Christopher L. Delgado
(PDF 475K)

Chapter 12: Commentaries on Technology
T. Ajibola Taylor, Robbie M. Mupawose, and Michael Colllnson
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Part III. Support Systems for Agricultural Development

Chapter 13: Input and Output Marketing Systems: A Nigerian Case
S. O. Olayide and Francis S. Idachaba

(PDF 447K)

Chapter 14: Restructuring Marketing Systems for Smallholders: Cases in Zimbabwe
Malcolm J. Blackie
(PDF 422K)

Chapter 15: Commentaries on Marketing Systems
Gunvant M. Desai, Abiodun O. Falusi, Michael Schluter, and Robinson L. Gapare
(PDF 377K)

Chapter 16: Agriculture and Central Physical Grid Infrastructure
Michael Lipton
(PDF 534K)

Chapter 17: Commentaries on Infrastructure
Sudhir Wanmali and Francis S. Idachaba
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Part IV. Food Policy in the Context of National Development Strategies

Chapter 18: Growth Strategy and the Agricultural Sector
Ojetunji Aboyade

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Chapter 19: Commentary on Growth Strategy
Anne O. Krueger
(PDF 120K)

Chapter 20: Food Policy and the Choice of Trade Regime
T. Ademola Oyejide
(PDF 584K)

Chapter 21: Commentaries on the Trade Regime
Achi Atsain and Tshikala B. Tshibaka
(PDF 136K)

Chapter 22: Food Price Policy and Equity
Dharam Ghai and Lawrence Smith
(PDF 371K)

Chapter 23: Commentaries on Price Policy and Equity
Carl K. Eicher and Dunstan S. C. Spencer
(PDF 185K)

Chapter 24: Domestic Political Considerations for Food Policy
Henry Bienen
(PDF 440K)

Chapter 25: Commentaries on Political Considerations, Nationalism, and Development
Benson Kabeta Muleya, Philip Ndegwa, and Kazushi Ohkawa
(PDF 335K)



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Part V. Donor Assistance Strategies

Chapter 26: Growth of Foreign Assistance and Its Impact on Agriculture
Uma Lele

(PDF 786K)

Chapter 27: Commentaries on Foreign Assistance
Moise C. Mensah, Anne de Lattre, and Bruce F. Johnston
(PDF 244K)



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Part VI. Conclusions

Chapter 28: Priorities for Accelerating Food Production Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado, and Malcolm J. Blackie

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References

(PDF 663K)

Contributors

(PDF 234K)

Index

(PDF 393K)