Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa: Markets, Soil, and Innovations

ISBN-13: 9789400712003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 214 str.

Takashi Yamano; Keijiro Otsuka; Frank Place

Opis

Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa offers case studies that find promise in many new innovations. Farmers in Uganda have quickly learned the management of NERICA rice (a new upland rice variety), which is being disseminated in a limited way in the region. Also in Uganda, farmers living in more remote areas have improved access to markets due to the expansion of mobile phones. In Kenya, improved milk marketing systems have increased efficiency and led to tangible increases in the adoption of dairy production technologies. And the adoption of intensive dairy production systems in Kenya and Uganda are providing significant amounts of manure and positively impacting yields of maize and banana."

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Preface

 

Part I: Introduction

 

1. Purpose, Scope, and Methodology

 

Part II: Market Access and Innovations

 

2. The Maize Farm-Market Price Spread in Kenya and Uganda

 

3. Fertilizer Policies, Price, and Application in East Africa

 

4. The Impacts of Fertilizer Credit on Crop Production and Income in Ethiopia

 

5. Emerging Markets in the Post-Liberalization Period: Evidence from the Raw Milk Market in Rural Kenya

 

6. Dynamic Changes in the Uptake of Dairy Technologies in the Kenya Highlands

 

7. Mobile Phone Coverage and Market Participation: The Case of Banana Marketing in Uganda

 

Part III: Soil Fertility and Emerging Agricultural Innovations

 

8. Optimal Fertilizer Use on Maize Production in East Africa

 

9. Dairy-Banana Integration and Organic Manure Use in Uganda

 

10. Technology, Soil Fertility, and Poverty: The Case of NERICA Rice in Uganda

 

11. On the Possibility of a Lowland Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Eastern Uganda

 

Part IV: Conclusion

 

12. Market Access, Soil Fertility, and Income in East Africa

 

13. Conclusion: Towards the Transformation of Agriculture in East Africa

 

Index.

Blurb

Based on a coordinated panel study of more than 2,400 households in three countries—Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia—this book provides unprecedented insight into how agricultural productivity can be improved. Its vast coverage of over 240 different communities offers a wide variety of policy, market and agro-climatic contexts, thus enabling more certain conclusions to be drawn about which strategies are more probably universal or context-specific.

 

Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa offers case studies that find promise in many new innovations. Farmers in Uganda have quickly learned the management of NERICA rice (a new upland rice variety), which is being disseminated in a limited way in the region. Also in Uganda, farmers living in more remote areas have improved access to markets due to the expansion of mobile phones.  In Kenya, improved milk marketing systems have increased efficiency and led to tangible increases in the adoption of dairy production technologies.  And the adoption of intensive dairy production systems in Kenya and Uganda are providing significant amounts of manure and positively impacting yields of maize and banana.

 

Despite the success of these innovations, many of their impacts are limited in terms of depth (size of impact per household) and breadth (number of households). Therefore, each chapter details key constraints to improved impact and the potential policy strategies to overcome them. Many recommendations concern the improvement of markets, which is imperative to increasing agricultural productivity and reducing poverty.  Particular emphasis is placed on the role of technology to induce institutional and market change, as was evident in Asia’s Green Revolution.  Altogether, the studies in the book suggest that, in addition to improving markets and the output / input price ratio, it is essential to improve technology (e.g. varieties or water management) so that fertilizer and other inputs can earn a higher return.