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Magnus Jirström

Magnus Jirström

Professor

Magnus Jirström

The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution.

Editor

  • Göran Djurfeldt
  • Hans Holmén
  • Magnus Jirström
  • Rolf Larsson

Summary, in English

This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers and with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies of eight African and eight Asian countries (focusing on the early part of the Green Revolution) were carried out. Based on these studies the book presents a causal and explanatory model of Asian green revolutions and discusses why it has occurred in Asia, but not in Africa.

Department/s

  • Sociology
  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Document type

Book

Publisher

CABI Publishing

Topic

  • Human Geography
  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • Asian agriculture
  • agricultural development
  • Green Revolution
  • food policy
  • African agriculture
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • sociology
  • geography
  • sociologi

Status

Published

Research group

  • Afrint team

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-85199-998-0