The Transformation of Rural Africa (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Jayne, T. S.; Benfica, Rui; Chamberlin, Jordan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a fresh, evidence-based and policy-relevant understanding the dynamic transformations unfolding in Africa's rural areas. It also identifies the key opportunities for, and challenges to, sustaining this growth in coming decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429833465
• Artikelnr.: 59366860

Autorenporträt

T. S. Jayne is University Foundation Professor of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He is also Co-Director of the Alliance for African Partnership, and a Distinguished Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists. Jordan Chamberlin is a Spatial Economist with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, based in Ethiopia. Rui Benfica is a Lead Economist at the Research and Impact Assessment Division, Strategy and Knowledge Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Africa's Unfolding Economic Transformation 1. Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 2. Africa's Evolving Employment Trends 3. Understanding the Role of Rural Non-Farm Enterprises in Africa's Economic Transformation: Evidence from Tanzania 4. Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 5. Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households 6. The Quiet Rise of Large-Scale Trading Firms in East and Southern Africa 7. Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Rural Malawi 8. Changing Patterns of Wealth Distribution: Evidence from Ghana