Sources of Growth in East African Agriculture |
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| Authors: | Lele Uma |
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| Institution: | Uma Lele is a division chief in the Country Economics Department, the World Bank. This article is based on work done for a World Bank research project, Managing Agricultural Development in Africa (MADIA), which was conducted with the participation of the governments of Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Senegal and of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.K. Overseas Development Administration, the Danish International Development Agency, the Swedish International Development Authority, the governments of France and of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Commission for the European Communities. The author wishes to thank Harris Mule, M. L. Muwila, J. S. Magombo, Stephen O'Brien, Paul Isenman, Gregory Ingram, Andrew Spurling, Michael Westlake, Kevin Cleaver, and James Adams for helpful comments. |
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| Abstract: | A dynamic agricultural sector is critical for alleviating Sub-SaharanAfrica's current economic crisis, and for laying the foundationsof sustained future growth. In recent years, however, agriculturehas performed poorly in many African countries. Efforts to assistits recovery, often through structural adjustment lending, havesuffered from inadequate information about country- and region-specificfactors, and from an emphasis on macroeconomic policies withoutcomplementary interventions at the sector level. The articledescribes the patterns of agricultural growth in Kenya, Malawi,and Tanzania, and examines price and nonprice aspects of threesets of factors: initial endowments and subsequent exogenousdevelopments, general economic influences, and sectoral issuesand policies. It suggests that government action at the sectoraland subsectoral levels in such critical areas as land policy,smallholders' access to inputs, and agricultural research needsto be combined with macroeconomic reforms to achieve sustainedand broadbased agricultural growth. |
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