The Economics of Agricultural Technology in Semiarid Sub-Saharan Africa

by John H. Sanders and Professor John H. Sanders

Most researchers on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa have become pessimistic about future potential after observing the decline of food output per capita over the past two decades. Although the authors of this study identify factors that have resulted in this stagnation, they also document technological successes and then develop a strategy for increasing the effectiveness of future research and development. This strategy is evaluated using field...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801851394
• ISBN13: 9780801851391
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages