An Analysis of Africa’s Agricultural Value Chain and Lessons from Korea’s Agricultural Development Policies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Ho Park ◽  
Jae Wook Jung ◽  
Yejin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Policies

scholarly journals Actors’ Satisfaction with Poultry Value Chain Approach of the Commercial Agricultural Development Project in Enugu State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Charles Ekene Udoye ◽  
Mabel Ukamaka Dimelu ◽  
Ifeoma Q. Anugwa ◽  
Remigius I. Ozioko ◽  
Favour C. Azubuike
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Enugu State

Food for All in Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Conway ◽  
Ousmane Badiane ◽  
Katrin Glatzel
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Agricultural Transformation

Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent's diverse environments and climates, and that takes into account its histories and cultures while benefiting rural smallholder farmers and their families. This book describes the key challenges faced by Africa's smallholder farmers and presents the concepts and practices of sustainable intensification as opportunities to sustainably transform Africa's agriculture sector and the livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The way forward, the book indicates, will be an agriculture sector deeply rooted within sustainable intensification: producing more with less, using fertilizers and pesticides more prudently, adapting to climate change, improving natural capital, adopting new technologies, and building resilience at every stage of the agriculture value chain. This book envisions a virtuous circle generated through agricultural development rooted in sustainable intensification that results in greater yields, healthier diets, improved livelihoods for farmers, and sustainable economic opportunities for the rural poor that in turn generate further investment. It describes the benefits of digital technologies for farmers and the challenges of transforming African agricultural policies and creating effective and inspiring leadership. The book demonstrates why we should take on the challenge and provides ideas and methods through which it can be met.

scholarly journals Supermarket-Led Development and the Neglect of Traditional Food Value Chains: Reflections on Indonesia’s Agri-Food System Transformation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Vetter ◽  
Marianne Nylandsted Larsen ◽  
Thilde Bech Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Food System ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Food Retail ◽  
Food Value

The rapid expansion of modern food retail encapsulated in the so-called ‘supermarket revolution’ is often portrayed as a pivotal driving force in the modernization of agri-food systems in the Global South. Based on fieldwork conducted on horticulture value chains in West Java and South Sulawesi, this paper explores this phenomenon and the concerted efforts that government and corporate actors undertake with regard to agri-food value chain interventions and market modernization in Indonesia. The paper argues that after more than 15 years of ‘supermarket revolution’ in Indonesia, traditional food retail appears not to be in complete demise, but rather adaptive and resilient to its modern competitors. The analysis of local manifestations of supermarket-led agricultural development suggests that traditional markets can offer certain advantages for farmers over supermarket-driven value chains. The paper further identifies and discusses two areas that have so far been neglected by research and policymaking and which warrant further investigation: (i) the simultaneous transformations in traditional food value chains and their relation to modern markets, and (ii) the social and environmental performances of modern vis-à-vis traditional food value chains.

DISJUNCTURES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: MAKING SENSE OF CHANGE IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AT THE OFFICE DU NIGER, 1920–60

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
MONICA M. VAN BEUSEKOM
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Office Du Niger ◽  
Social Scientific

In the introduction to their edited volume International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge, Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard take on the thorny question of why development policies change and why they sometimes persist or reappear after a period of dormancy. Much recent scholarship has located the reasons for persistence or change in development approaches within international institutions such as multilateral and bilateral aid agencies and Western scientific and social scientific disciplines. Both Arturo Escobar and James Ferguson argue for the existence of a hegemonic development discourse with standardized interventions aimed at ‘solving’ homogenized ‘problems’. Grounded in Western institutions such as the World Bank, this development discourse is maintained by an interlocked network of experts and expertise. In their analyses, development approaches and interventions are minimally affected by the particularities of locale. Other scholars concerned with identifying and understanding significant change in development policy have also focused their studies on Western organizations and disciplines and excluded from their analysis the role that development practice might play in change. But Cooper and Packard challenge scholars to consider the ways in which development policies might be molded by the practice of development, when they note ‘it is not clear that the determinants of these policies are as independent of what goes on at the grassroots as they appear to their authors or their critics to be’.

scholarly journals Effects of Agricultural Development Policies on Migration in Peninsular Malaysia

Demography ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazli Baydar ◽  
Michael J. White ◽  
Charles Simkins ◽  
Ozer Babakol
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Development Policies

scholarly journals Irrigated agricultural development in northern Australia: Value-chain challenges and opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ash ◽  
Trish Gleeson ◽  
Murray Hall ◽  
Andrew Higgins ◽  
Garry Hopwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals The Roles of Farmers in Agricultural Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thu Thuy ◽  
Ma Huyen Nga ◽  
Vu Bach Diep
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Factors Affecting

To study the factors affecting people's participation in the development of agricultural value chains, the research team collected information from 230 samples in some northern mountainous provinces of Vietnam. The article uses the EFA model and Probit model to conduct the analysis. By using the EFA model and the Probit model to assess the factors affecting farmers' participation in the development of the value chain, our findings show factors: income, natural conditions, loan capital, market have a great impact on the level of people's participation. The article has suggested some solutions to improve people's participation in agricultural value chain development.

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