The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution

By G. Djurfeldt, H. Holmén, Magnus Jirström, R. Larsson. 2005

233 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Derek Headey
2. P. Hazell
3. Mohammad Alauddin
4. T. Kuyper
5. T. Jayne
6. A. van Huis
7. N. Röling

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. T. Jayne
2. C. Leeuwis
3. Derek Headey
4. E. White
5. Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh
6. P. Hazell
7. T. Kuyper
8. N. Röling

Citations in the corpus

• Adaptation to land constraints: Is Africa different? (2014, background): “And since the Green Revolution successes in Asia, there has emerged a more generic literature on intensification and technology adoption (Diao et al., 2008; Djurfeldt et al., 2005; Evenson, 2004; Evenson and Gollin, 2003; Hazell, 2009; Johnson et al., 2003; Mosley, 2002), with population pressures b”
• An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa (2012, background): “Annual cereal imports into Africa have steadily increased from 2.5 million tons in the 1960s to more than 15 million tons in 2000 and 2001 (Djurfeldt et al., 2005, p. 2).”
• Explaining agricultural productivity growth: an international perspective (2010, background): “Interestingly, in some developing countries such as Taiwan in the 1950s, depressed farmgate output prices were compensated for by the effective dissemination of improved seeds, fertilizer, and extension services (Djurfeldt et al., 2005).”
• The Asian Green Revolution (2009, background): “IFPRI Discussion Paper 00911 November 2009 The Asian Green Revolution Peter B.R. Hazell 2020 Vision Initiative This paper has been prepared for the project on Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development (www.ifpri.org/millionsfed)”
• Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited: Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World (2012, background): “Public policies were of paramount importance for both industrialization (Evans 1995; Amsden 2001) and agriculture modernization (Djurfeldt et al. 2005), and they initiated the so-called “developmental state.”
• Old Problems in the New Solutions? Politically Motivated Allocation of Program Benefits and the “New” Fertilizer Subsidies (2011, background): “Agricultural intensification and food security issues in Uganda.”