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Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
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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.
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Keywords
- agricultural science
- Agriculture & Farming
- Development economics & emerging economies
- Development Studies
- Economics
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Food security
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Large-scale irrigation
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Rice cultivation training
- Rice Green Revolution
- Rice milling and rice quality
- Role of mechanization
- Sustainable growth
- Technology, engineering, agriculture
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-8046-6Editions