The New Harvest
Agricultural Innovation in Africa
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 September 2015
- ISBN 9780190237233
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 137x208x22 mm
- Weight 376 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Filled with case studies from within Africa and success stories from developing nations around the world, The New Harvest outlines the policies and institutional changes necessary to promote agricultural innovation across the African continent.
MoreLong description:
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by: advancing scientific and technological research; investing in infrastructure; fostering higher technical training; and creating regional markets. To govern the transformation Africa must foster the emergence of a new crop of entrepreneurial leaders dedicated to the continent's economic improvement.
This new edition of The New Harvest provides ideas on how to implement a series of high-level decisions adopted by African leaders to place agriculture at the center of the continent's long-term economic transformation. It puts agriculture in the context of the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy (STISA-24) adopted by African presidents in 2014. More importantly, this edition provides a policy framework that could be adopted for other sectors such as health, industry and green innovation.
Incorporating research from academia, government, civil society, and private industry, the book suggests multiple ways that individual African countries can work together at the regional level to develop local knowledge and resources, harness technological innovation, encourage entrepreneurship, increase agricultural output, create markets, and improve overall economic performance.
This is a refreshing new book that steps back from the usual debates about appropriate agricultural policies and programme interventions for redressing Africa's pressing poverty and food security needs, to take a longer-term view of the kinds of science-based interventions that are needed to launch Africa's agricultural sector on a structurally different trajectory...Calestous Juma develops a compelling vision of how knowledge and innovation systems that bring together the best of modern science and local knowledge could...lead to agricultural growth clusters that would drive national and regional economic growth across Africa.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 1: The Growing Economy
Chapter 2: Advances in Science, Technology, and Engineering
Chapter 3: Leapfrogging in Biotechnology
Chapter 4: Agricultural Innovation Systems
Chapter 5: Enabling Infrastructure
Chapter 6: Human Capacity
Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship
Chapter 8: Governing Innovation
Chapter 9: Conclusions and the Way Ahead
Notes
Index
