An African Green Revolution Leading to Development
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Africa is short of food, due particularly to increasing
population and under-investment in agriculture
and agricultural research. For several reasons
farm yields are about one-quarter of the global
average. New broad cooperative approaches to
the problem have had very encouraging results;
Malawi for example has been able to export food
to neighbouring countries. Significant factors in
this success include comprehensive policy support
by governments for farmers, innovative
financing arrangements, and institutional innovations
that have encouraged small-scale domestic
agribusinesses, especially in the supply of good
seed and fertiliser. There are further opportunities
to build on the resulting expansion of rural
economies, for example by new crops and local
processing, and to extend these examples to
other countries. Increased vigilance is required to
maintain farmer access to good farmland, and to
anticipate and offset adverse effects of climate
change.