Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (1st ed. 2023) (Natural Resource Management and Policy #56)

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Synopsis
This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice technology, whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in terms of topics, study periods, and study sites. It continues to show the significant impacts of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in intensification of rice farming, high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes, and the critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies, this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa.
Copyright:
2023

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9789811980466
Related ISBNs:
9789811980459
Publisher:
Springer Nature Singapore
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Copyrighted By:
JICA Ogata Research Institute
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Technology, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Keijiro Otsuka
Edited by:
Yukichi Mano
Edited by:
Kazushi Takahashi

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