Africa's Green Revolution: Critical Perspectives on New Agricultural Technologies and Systems

ISBN-13: 9781138309340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 136 str.

William G. Moseley; Matthew A. Schnurr; Rachel Bezner-Kerr

Opis

This volume complicates our understanding the dominant neoliberal agenda for alleviating hunger and poverty in Africa known as the New Green Revolution, raising serious questions about its effectiveness as a development strategy.

This book was based on a special issue of African Geographical Review.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Interrogating the technocratic (neoliberal) agenda for agricultural development and hunger alleviation in Africa  2. The social realities of technology transfer: smallholder farmers’ encounter with a new rice variety  3. A political ecology of high-input agriculture in northern Ghana  4. Implications of supermarket expansion on urban food security in Cape Town, South Africa  5. Should I stay or should I go? Incorporating a commitment to fieldwork throughout an academic career  6. Food and nutrition assistance to HIV-infected and affected populations in Ghana: a situational analysis and stakeholder views  7. A field assessment of land use systems and soil properties at varied landscape positions in a fragile ecosystem of Mount Elgon, Uganda  8. Smallholder Perspectives on Soil Fertility Management and Markets in the African Green Revolution

O autorze

William G. Moseley is a professor of geography and African studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN USA. His research is focused on food security, agriculture, development and environment in the African context.

Matthew A. Schnurr is an associate professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is an environmental geographer with research and teaching interests in environment and development, political ecology, agricultural biotechnology, farmer decision-making, and environmental justice.

Rachel Bezner Kerr is an associate professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell Universit in Ithaca, NY USA. Her research interests focus on farmer-led agroecology, critical examinations of neoliberal approaches to agriculture, and the historical, political, economic, and gender dynamics that shape food security in sub-Saharan Africa.