Wide Crossing: The West Africa Rice Development Association in Transition, 1985-2000

by John R. Walsh

The West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) was established in the early 1970s to help farmers increase rice production. Africa is the only continent whose population has grown faster than its food production; this shortfall provokes the syndrome of poverty, hunger and violence there. WARDA first attempted to alleviate the food deficit by introducing high-yielding imported crop varieties. This strategy drove green revolution in Asia and Latin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075461770X
• ISBN13: 9780754617709
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Burlington VT
• Length: 162 Pages