Governments, farmers and seeds in a changing Africa
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Governments, farmers and seeds in a changing Africa
CAB International in association with the Overseas Development Institute, c1996
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Bibliography: p. 136-142
Includes index
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内容説明
Within the international community there is a growing awareness of the need for a broader and deeper understanding of the relationship between governments and farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Nowhere in the agricultural sector is this awareness growing more rapidly than in the seed sub-sector. Here the quest for alternatives to the large-scale government seed supply organizations of the 1970s and 1980s is becoming more urgent in the face of Africa's stagnating crop yields and mounting food deficits. This book presents the results of the first study to investigate the African seed sector in detail, using case study material from Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It provides a new conceptual approach to analysing structural and organizational issues in the seed sector; assesses the likely impact on the seed sector of the two trends of structural adjustment and greater emphasis on community participation; and explains the policy lessons for organising the delivery of inputs such as seeds.
目次
1: Introduction 2: The seed sector in perspective 3: The market for modern variety seed 4: A framework for seed sector analysis 5: From parastatal to multi-national subsidiary: what role for the National Seed Company of Malawi? 6: Seed supply in Zambia: life after the provincial co-operative unions? 7: The seed co-op and communal farmers in Zimbabwe: friends or foes? 8: Conclusions Appendix 1: Technical features of seed production Appendix 2: Example Seed Project cost-benefit analysis Appendix 3: Seed sector statistics for Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe Appendix 4: Assumptions used in calculating economics of Malawi smallholder seed multiplication scheme
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