November 8, 2018 Food & Agriculture Uma 0 comment

Managing agricultural development in Africa: three articles on lessons from experience

This report consists of three articles originally published in journals. Together the articles serve to illuminate the main issues identified and addressed by the MADIA project, to illustrate the benefits of cross country analysis, and to show the importance of the agricultural sector for broad based growth in Africa. The first article ” Lessons of experience for Governments and aid donors ” , reveals mounting evidence that adjustment based on macroeconomic reforms cannot alone put African agriculture back on a growth path. The second article, ” Sources of growth in East African agriculture ” , examines the common and contrasting experiences of Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania in their post independence period. African policymakers have faced a complex task in spurring agricultural growth. The need for better understanding of the interplay between macroeconomic and sectoral policies to improve the prospects for long term sustainable growth is underscored. The last article, ” The development of national agricultural research capacity : India ‘ s experience with the Rockefeller Foundation and its signifigance for Africa ” , highlights the fact that technological change is one of the critical elements that determines the pace of agricultural growth in developing countries.