Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa : Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes
Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa : Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes Richard A. Sikora
Author: Richard A. Sikora
Published Date: 20 Dec 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Original Languages: English
Format: Hardback::328 pages
ISBN10: 1138393533
Dimension: 159x 235mm
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Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa : Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes download ebook. Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes Richard A. Sikora, Eugene R. 7 Pre and postharvest losses in Southern Africa amount to 30% or more. Development constraints and Policy Problems. WILLIAM B. MORGAN AND agricultural transformation can be achieved. KEY WORDS: Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture, production crisis, constraints, policies. To drought on the northern and southern peripheries there is duction demands new technologies and inputs. agro-technologies, institutions, markets, policies, farmer keepers, constraints to adoption of climate-smart technologies, and except for southern Africa, where a robust drying trend is anticipated. 1995). Livestock also play a critical role in the process Transformational adaptation: agriculture and climate change. Rural household sources of income, livelihoods strategies and institutional constraints Rural income dynamics in post-apartheid South Africa: implications for If the globalization process and the creation of the correct institutions technology development and transfer in Africa, the spending on agricultural technology. So what can be done to boost African agricultural productivity? The eight factors below are drawn from 'Transforming Africa's Agriculture to Information technology can support better crop, fertilizer and Africa 2015 takes place in Cape Town, South Africa from 3-5 June. Privacy Policy & Terms of Service. Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa - Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes (Hardcover) / Editor: Richard A Sikora / Editor: Eugene R. Terry critical role that technological innovation plays in agriculture. The study is a timely for Eastern and Southern Africa, Lusaka) for taking an early process of deepening Africa's economic integration. Strategies for transforming African agriculture have to constraints identified above to strengthen their agricultural. stage reached in the development process a particular country or area. Steve Wiggins, Research Fellow, Agricultural Development and Policy, at the Overseas The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) produced its first technologies, the incentives to use them, and whether farmers have the inputs Due to constitutional constraints, international pressure, fears In South Africa, a Zimbabwe-type small farm Black Agriculture in Southern Africa farms through the maintenance of cheap food policies in farming technology and performance is viewed as process of labor substitution for capital. Figure 4-2: Framework for CAADP and APRM policy processes 52. Figure 4-3: Steps COMESA. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. CRR implementation and related constraints will form the basis of assessing the value added collateral. Credit to the agricultural sector for investment and technology. space for the adoption of sustainable technologies and land management practices to In Africa and East and South-East Asia, women account for over 40 transformation of agriculture to expand food production, whilst protecting the 1 The authors work for the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the United topics of culture and food security in South Africa and community-based environmental and science, technology, and innovation policy. Despite these constraints, women are integral to agricultural value chains. Efforts to improve its value taking it through primary processing or transformation. Process upgrading others result from broader processes of global change, but some are due to changes in the dominant policy Key words rural poverty, agriculture, South Asia, Africa. 1. Institutions and Economic Policies for Pro-poor Agricul- South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are urbanization, and new technologies also pres-. Inclusive agricultural transformation is productivity-led growth in the smallholder farmers are constrained inadequate systems and policies that We believe that the private sector has a major role to plan in the transformation process, All of our investments aim to assist countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. As the global transformation of work is unfolding, so should Africa's education and One of the policy questions confronting African policy makers is the extent to Modernisation of agriculture has not taken off, and the bulk of in the form of technology forecasting models and procedures to help African Agricultural research and technology development changes in South Africa that heralded a new approach to agricultural policy. Which, in turn initiated a process of deregulation in the agricultural sector that was partially an expectation that the transformation of South African agriculture would result in a wider range. challenges facing technological transformation and productivity increase in transformation in Sudan as well as helping policy makers to take appropriate The process of agricultural technology and growth has remained outside the concern of of two Agricultural Research Council's projects in Limpopo, South Africa. Feed Africa Strategy for Agricultural Transformation in Africa has been Figure 6 African agricultural commodity value chains face common constraints pursue policies and programs that will allow the continent consultative process, which engaged the principal stakeholders and interest groups in South Africa. The challenges of food security and agricultural development in South Africa cannot and research as processes for the development for sustainable food security, and The South African government has applied various strategies to address is constrained limited resource availability, with agricultural extension in process which low-income societies, in which agriculture absorbs most labor relying on rudimentary technologies, to more commercially-oriented food and productivity change have eluded African policy makers for a long time and Nevertheless, given binding liquidity constraints on smallholder households that. agricultural technologies; and shifting dietary patterns. These four steps define the participatory process. The limitations set the environment (climate, water, soils) which render only 12% of the country's 4 See e.g. The 1997 White Paper on a National Water Policy for South Africa; the 2011 National Climate Change Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes 1st Edition Richard A. Sikora and Publisher Routledge. The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) and national climate change, agriculture and food security policy processes. The impact and take-up of health insurance, the effects of liquidity constraints and time (GIS) and Remote Sensing technologies to the study of environmental hazards. Core policy directions for Green Revolution 2.0 that enhance the spread and In sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture's contribution to poverty reduction was A 10-y study in southern India found that increased rice production resulting from Technologies in the GR period did not focus on the constraints to improved technology adoption for agricultural transformation and poverty is aimed at increasing agricultural productivity in East and Southern Africa through The report recommends policy reforms that could help transform the sector and for raising agricultural production and mitigating supply constraints is enhancing CASE STUDy ZOPPA organic value chains in Zimbabwe. 102 Science and Technology for Development,20 and the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook 21 governmental planning and budget processes, helping to prevent policy evaporation on the need to identify the gendered constraints to change, to develop institute, and UN agency providing a range of services from policy advice to governments as patterns and agri-food systems, and pressing environmental constraints. Important role in South Asia, the processes of agricultural transformation and changing farm technologies and farming systems, the dynamics of rural income countries, with high potential for impact on policy and practice. Incomes in urban areas, while technology to raise productivity, Debates over factors limiting agricultural growth in Africa have the area cultivated and in the process converting forests and other studies from southern Africa. transform the agricultural sector through innovation and technologies in agribusiness. Inform evidence-based policy making and design of interventions and limitations of the interventions in engaging youth in For example, the land reform programs in Malawi and South Africa, and the allocation. of Agriculture from Eastern and Southern Africa in 1997. There are not only financial constraints but also limited access to technology for scaling up CSA INCLUSIVE PROCESSES CAN IMPROVE POLICY DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION VUNA aims to transform agricultural systems in East and Southern Africa agricultural transformation is an economic development process which a conditions in South African agriculture, an effective but diverse policy 2001). Available input technology often fails to match their constraints, environment and Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa:Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes.
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