Interpreting Changes from the 1970s to the 1990s in African Agriculture Through Village Studies

By S. Wiggins. 2000

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Tiffen
2. E. Gabre-Madhin
3. S. Haggblade
4. M. Mortimore
5. Billie L. Turner II

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Mortimore
2. Billie L. Turner II
3. M. Tiffen
4. E. Gabre-Madhin
5. S. Haggblade
6. K. Lynch

In Soil Science

1. M. Mortimore
2. Billie L. Turner II
3. M. Tiffen
4. E. Gabre-Madhin
5. S. Haggblade
6. K. Lynch

Citations in the corpus

• A Policy Agenda for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth (2004, unknown): “Sources: Bevan et al., 1993; Carr, 1997; Eicher, 1995; Eicher and Kupfuma, 1998; Eicher and Staatz, 1998; Gabre-Madhin and Johnson, 1999; Gabre-Madhan and Haggblade, 2001; Goldman and Smith, 1995; Howard et al., 1999; Mosley, 1993; Tomich et al., 1995; Wiggins, 2000.”
• Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, unknown): “In common with many countries in the region the private sector was encouraged to take over as the main suppliers of agricultural inputs, credit and marketing services once the parastatals withdrew (Wiggins 2000).”
• Does the Sahelian smallholder's management of woodland, farm trees, rangeland support the hypothesis of human-induced desertification? (2005, background): “macro-scale and positive or neutral interpretations of case studies at the micro-scale ( Wiggins, 2000 ).”
• Successes in African agriculture: Results of an expert survey (2004, background): “In agriculture, micro-evidence from village studies documents a series of impressive achievements, what a recent review has called a collection of “small (and not so small) booms in production of food crops for the national and sub-national markets” (Wiggins, 2000).”
• Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Agriculture, Urbanization and Income Growth (2003, background): “Wiggins (1995, 2000) has already discussed the conflict between these statistics and the evidence of change and growth gathered from a limited number of village case studies.”