Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa

Markets, Soil, and Innovations
2011
ISBN: 978-94-007-1200-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yamano, Takashi

Place, Frank

Otsuka, Keijiro

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.