
Magnus Jirström
Professor

The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution.
Redaktör
- 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.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
- Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Bok
Förlag
CABI Publishing
Ämne
- Human Geography
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
Nyckelord
- Asian agriculture
- agricultural development
- Green Revolution
- food policy
- African agriculture
- Africa
- Asia
- sociology
- geography
- sociologi
Aktiv
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Afrint team
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-0-85199-998-0