From Potentials to Reality: Transforming Africa's Food Production
Investment and policy priorities for sufficient, nutritious and sustainable food supplies
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
- Acronyms
- Summary and proposed investment and policy actions – Heike Baumüller, Assefa Admassie, Sheryl Hendriks, Getaw Tadesse and Joachim von Braun
- Part 1: Setting the scene
- 1.1 Introduction – Heike Baumüller, Assefa Admassie, Sheryl Hendriks, Getaw Tadesse and Joachim von Braun
- 1.2 Current and projected supply, demand and food security situation in Africa – Nicolas Gerber, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
- Part 2: Sustainable expansion and intensification of crop production
- 2.1 Production inputs – Ousmane Badiane and Julia Collins, AKADEMIYA2063
- 2.2 Mechanization along the value chain – Thomas Daum, University of Hohenheim, and Oliver Kirui, ZEF
- 2.3 Irrigation – Alisher Mirzabaev, ZEF
- 2.4 Reducing food loss – Izidora Božić, ZEF
- 2.5 Land use change, sustainable land management and climate resilience – Alisher Mirzabaev, ZEF
- Part 3: Sustainable expansion and intensification of animal husbandry, fisheries and (agro)-forestry
- 3.1 Animal husbandry – Katrin Glatzel, AKADEMIYA2063, and Meera Shah, Imperial College of London
- 3.2 Ocean and inland fisheries – Papa Gora Ndiaye, Réseau sur les Politiques de pêche en Afrique de l'Ouest
- 3.3 Aquaculture – John K. Walakira, National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda) and World Aquaculture Society-Africa Chapter
- 3.4 (Agro-)Forestry – Tsegaye Gatiso, Eike Luedeling and Jan Börner, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn
- Part 4: Systemic investments for sustainability
- 4.1 Skill development and agricultural extension – Oliver Kirui, ZEF
- 4.2 Youth engagement – Zaneta Kubik, ZEF
- 4.3 Digitalization – Heike Baumüller, ZEF
- 4.4 Research investments in partnership – Assefa Admassie, University of Addis Ababa and ZEF, and Oliver Kirui, ZEF
- 4.5 Rural and agricultural finance – Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, ZEF
- 4.6 Energy – Alisher Mirzabaev, ZEF
- 4.7 Inclusive markets and value chains – Getaw Tadesse, AKADEMIYA2063 and Tekalign Sakketa, formerly ZEF, now German Development Institute (GDI)
- Part 5: Investments in governance
- 5.1 Agricultural and food security policies – Tekalign Sakketa, formerly ZEF, now GDI
- 5.2 Farmers’ organisations – Oliver Kirui, ZEF
- 5.3 Land and water rights – Tekalign Sakketa, formerly ZEF, now GDI
- 5.4 Gender equality – Evelyn Baraké, formerly ZEF, now International Development Research Centre
- Part 6: Development assistance, investment and international cooperation
- 6.1 Development assistance for agriculture – Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, ZEF
- 6.2 Domestic and foreign private sector investment in the food and agriculture sector – Zaneta Kubik, ZEF
- 6.3 Regional and international trade – Lukas Kornher, ZEF
- 6.4 Policy processes and initiatives in Africa and at the international level – Assefa Admassie, University of Addis Ababa and ZEF
- References
- Series index
Contributors
Assefa Admassie, University of Addis Ababa and Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Ethiopia
Ousmane Badiane, AKADEMIYA2063 and Malabo Montpellier Panel, Rwanda
Evelyn Baraké, formerly Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, now International Development Research Centre, Canada
Heike Baumüller, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Jan Börner, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Germany
Izidora Božić, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Joachim von Braun, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn and Malabo Montpellier Panel, Germany
Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Julia Collins, AKADEMIYA2063, Rwanda
Thomas Daum, Ruthenberg Institute of Agricultural Science in the Tropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Tsegaye Gatiso, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Germany
Nicolas Gerber, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Tigabu Getahun, Policy Studies Institute and Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Ethiopia←11 | 12→
Katrin Glatzel, AKADEMIYA2063 and Malabo Montpellier Panel Secretariat, Senegal
Sheryl Hendriks, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria and Malabo Montpellier Panel, South Africa
Oliver Kirui, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Lukas Kornher, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Zaneta Kubik, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Eike Luedeling, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Germany
Alisher Mirzabaev, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Papa Gora Ndiaye, Réseau sur les Politiques de pêche en Afrique de l’Ouest, Senegal
Tekalign Sakketa, formerly Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, now German Development Institute, Germany
Meera Shah, Imperial College London and Malabo Montpellier Panel Secretariat, UK
Getaw Tadesse, AKADEMIYA2063, Ethiopia
John K. Walakira, Uganda National Fisheries Resources Research Institute and World Aquaculture Society-Africa Chapter, Uganda
Tables, Figures and Boxes
Figure 1.1.1:Agricultural value added index in world regions
Figure 1.1.2:Food systems approach and focus of this study
Figure 1.2.1:Prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) in Africa, 2005–2019
Figure 1.2.2:Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in Africa, 2014–2019
Figure 2.2.1:Entry points for mechanization along agricultural value chains
Figure 2.5.1:The extent of croplands in Africa in 2015 (in bright green)
Figure 2.5.2:The extent of pastures in Africa in 2015
Figure 2.5.3:Inter-annual changes of LULC types. 1990 is taken as the base year
Figure 2.5.4:The change of relative shares of land use and land cover types in Africa over time
Figure 2.5.5:Evolution of annual cropland expansion in Africa
Figure 2.5.6:The extent of land degradation and improvement in Africa
Figure 3.4.1:Share of annual household income of African households (n=12585)
Figure 3.4.2:Agroforestry systems of Africa
Figure 4.1.1:Professions along the agricultural value chain
Figure 4.2.1:Rural youth employment aspirations in selected countries
Figure 4.2.2:Time allocation by category of employment (share of Full Time Equivalents)
Figure 4.6.1:Total primary energy supply shares by source in Africa in 2017
Figure 4.6.2:Solar power potential across the world and in the Sahel region
Figure 6.1.1:Trend and ODA commitments by DAC member countries to agriculture in Africa, 1995–2018
←13 | 14→Figure 6.1.2:Sub-sectoral allocation agriculture ODA by DAC member countries in Africa, 1995–2018
Figure 6.2.2:Top ten countries in Saharan Africa in with the highest agricultural GFCF in 1995–2016
Figure 6.2.3:Agricultural capital stock per worker in Sub-Saharan Africa
Figure 6.2.4:Net agricultural capital stock in Sub-Saharan Africa
Figure 6.3.1:Net cost of Africa’s agricultural imports (imports-exports) (in million current US$)
Table 1.2.1:Number of undernourished people in Africa, 2005–2019
Table 2.1:Top 10 crops by area and production volumes (2018)
Table 3.3.1:Prediction of fish production, seed and feed requirement
Table 3.4.1:Adoption barriers of agroforestry systems
Table 4.1.1:Extension models practiced in different countries in Africa
Table 4.2.1:Youth (15–24 years) share of potential labour force (15+ years)
Table 4.7.2:Key constraints affecting midstream actors and possible intervention areas
Heike Baumüller, Assefa Admassie, Sheryl Hendriks, Getaw Tadesse and Joachim von Braun
Summary and proposed investment and policy actions
The agriculture sector is at the heart of the economies of almost all African countries. Agriculture – defined to include crop production, animal husbandry, fisheries and forestry, and the manufacturing and processing related to these – has the capacity to stimulate growth through rising rural incomes, enhancing economic transformation in Africa, creation of jobs, increasing government revenue, and ensuring accelerated economic growth and development. Given the structure of the African economy, increasing agricultural producers’ income is a key strategy for poverty reduction and food and nutrition security. Yet agriculture itself needs transformation in order for it to play a transformative role in economic development.
Details
- Pages
- 334
- Publication Year
- 2021
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631854709
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631854716
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631853283
- DOI
- 10.3726/b18416
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (September)
- Keywords
- Agriculture rural development innovation food security sustainability
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2021. 334 pp., 28 fig. col., 10 tables.
