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- Is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
- Identifies huge potential of a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on a decade of field research
- Demonstrates the utmost importance of rice cultivation training for sustainably improving productivity
- Provides evidence about the roles of mechanization and irrigation in intensification and productivity growth
Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 56)
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This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice technology, whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in terms of topics, study periods, and study sites. It continuesto show the significant impacts of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in intensification of rice farming, high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes, and the critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies, this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
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Training as a Central Development Strategy
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Complementary Development Strategies
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Conclusion
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yukichi Mano is a professor at Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and is a fellow at Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER). Before joining Hitotsubashi University, he was an assistant professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) from 2007 to 2012. He received B.A. in Economics and Master in Social Science from
Tokyo Metropolitan University, and his Master and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2007. His scholarly interests include agricultural technology adoption, horticulture and high-valued crop production, business and management training (KAIZEN), human capital investment, migration and remittance, and universal health coverage in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. He has published his research mainly in agricultural and development economics journals, including agricultural
economics, world development, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Development Studies, and Journal of Population Economics.
Kazushi Takahashi is a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and is a director of the GRIPS Global Governance Program, Japan. Before joining GRIPS, he was an associate professorand a professor at Sophia University from 2015 to 2019, a visiting research fellow at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management of Cornell University from 2010 to 2012, and a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization from 2006 to 2015. He received his B.A. in Policy Management from Keio University and both his Master in International Development Studies and Ph.D. in Development Economics from GRIPS. His scholarly interests include agricultural technology adoption, rural poverty dynamics, microfinance, human capital investment, and aid effectiveness in Asia and sub-Saharan African countries. He has published his research in major agricultural and development economics journals, such as American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Developing Economies, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Bank Economic Review, and World Development. He serves on the editorial board of Developing Economies in 2009–2010 and 2012–2015 as well as the associate editor of Food Security from 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Editors: Keijiro Otsuka, Yukichi Mano, Kazushi Takahashi
Series Title: Natural Resource Management and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8046-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: JICA Ogata Research Institute 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8045-9Published: 02 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8048-0Published: 02 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-8046-6Published: 01 March 2023
Series ISSN: 0929-127X
Series E-ISSN: 2511-8560
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 309
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, Development Economics, Agriculture, African Economics