The Palgrave Handbook of Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa

ISBN-13: 9783030415150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 649 str.

Evans S. Osabuohien

Spis treści

Introduction

SECTION ONE

General and Background Issues 

Chapter 1 Domesticating the SDGs in Africa for Rural and Agricultural Development: The Case of Devolved Governance 

Chapter 2 Youth Employment Challenge and Rural Transformation in Africa

Chapter 3 Impact of Remittances on Agricultural Labour Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa 

Chapter 4 Electricity Access and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Panel Data

Chapter 5 Beyond the Farmgate: Can Social Capital Help Smallholders to Overcome Constraints in the Agricultural Value Chain in Africa?

SECTION TWO

Households’ Livelihood and Welfare Issues 

Chapter 6 Large-scale Land Investments and Households’ Livelihood in Nigeria: Empirical Insights from Quantitative Analysis 

Chapter 7 Agricultural Productivity and Households’ Welfare in Uganda: Examining the Relevance of Agricultural Improvement Interventions

Chapter 8 Pattern of Labor Use and Productivity among Agricultural Households in Nigeria

Chapter 9 Challenges in Tackling Poverty and Unemployment: Analysis of (YEAP) in Alkaleri, Duguri and Gar Rural Communities of Bauchi State, Nigeria 

SECTION THREE

Access to Resources, Transformation and Productivity Interactions 

Chapter 10 Determinants of the Willingness to Pay for Public Sector Health Care Services: An Empirical Study of Rural and Urban Communities in Nigeria

Chapter 11 Increasing Agricultural Income and Access to Financial Services through Mobile Technology in Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Chapter 12 Identifying the gap between the demand and supply of agricultural finance among irrigation farmers in Namibia

Chapter 13 Access to Land and Agricultural Production: Analysis of ‘Priority Crops’ in Ogun State, Nigeria

Chapter 14 Rural Transformation through Savings and Credit Cooperatives Societies in Moshi District, Tanzania 

SECTION FOUR 

Employment, Migration and Transformation Nexus 

Chapter 15 Rural–Urban Labour Migration and Youth Employment:  Investigating the Relevance of Nigeria’s Agricultural Sector in Employment Generation 

Chapter 16 Fostering Rural Development and Social Inclusion in East Africa: Interrogating the Role of Cooperatives

Chapter 17 Impact of Non-agricultural Activities on Farmers’ Income: Evidence from the Senegalese Groundnut Area

Chapter 18 Youth Unemployment and Large-Scale Agricultural Land Investments: Examining the Relevance of Indigenous Institutions and Local Capacity in Tanzania

Chapter 19 Local Politics of Land Acquisitions for Foreign and Domestic Investments in Tanzania

Chapter 20 Agricultural Policy and Food Security in Nigeria: A Rational Choice Analysis

SECTION FIVE

Processing, Value Chain and Food Security 

Chapter 21 Socio-Cultural Factors and Performance of Small-Scale Enterprise in Agro-Allied Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria

Chapter 22 Labour Processes in Large Scale Land Investments in Sugar Estates in South-Eastern Zimbabwe

Chapter 23 Poverty Reduction, Sustainable Agricultural Development and the Cassava Value Chain in Nigeria

Chapter 24 Micro- Determinants of Women Participation in Agricultural Value Chain: Evidences from Rural Households in Nigeria

Chapter 25 Job Creation and Social Conditions of Labour in the Forestry Agro-Industry in Mozambique 

Chapter 26 Boosting Non-Oil Export Revenue in Nigeria through Non-Traditional Agricultural Export Commodities: How Feasible?

Conclusion 

O autorze

Evans S. Osabuohien is Professor of Economics, Chair of the Centre for Economic Policy & Development Research (CEPDeR) at Covenant University, Nigeria, and Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Professor, Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.

Blurb

This handbook examines agricultural and rural development in Africa from theoretical, empirical and policy stand points. It discusses the challenges of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and assesses how poverty and other development concerns can be addressed in rural communities through agricultural transformation. Additionally, the handbook extends the Post-2015 Development Agenda and it emphasizes the importance of the agricultural sector as it is closely related to the issues of food sustainability, poverty reduction, and employment creation. The contributors suggest multiple evidence-based policies to develop the rural areas through the transformation of the agricultural sector which can significantly benefit the African continent.

Evans S. Osabuohien is Professor of Economics, Chair of the Centre for Economic Policy & Development Research (CEPDeR) at Covenant University, Nigeria, and Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Professor, Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.