The African Green Revolution moves forward

By P. Sánchez, G. Denning, G. Nziguheba. Food Security, 2009

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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• Off-grid energy services for the poor: Introducing LED lighting in the Millennium Villages Project in Malawi (2010, background): “Village interventions are aimed at increasing rural productivity to allow villages ‘‘to move towards self-sustaining economic growth’’ (Sanchez et al. 2009).”
• Agriculture and food security in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: diversity in trends and opportunities (2011, background): “…Millennium Villages in SSA countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and Senegal, where reports mention the doubling of maize yields (from 1.7 to 4.1 t ha−1; Sanchez et al. 2009) thanks to the so-called “big push”; i.e. huge investments in external inputs to boost agricultural production.”
• The State of Soil Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Baselines, Trajectories, and Solutions (2015, background): “Such integrated research efforts are necessary to inform national and international efforts that invest in agricultural intensification across SSA [171–173].”
• Integrating a broader notion of food security and gender empowerment into the African Green Revolution (2009, background): “Such initiatives include the Alliance for an African Green Revolution and a proposed Global Fund for Smallholder Agriculture (Sanchez et al. 2009; Ideas Foundation 2009).”
• Urban food insecurity and the new international food security agenda (2011, background): “International calls for a ‘green revolution’ in Africa similarly focus on how to increase the production of food for subsistence and sale amongst small farmers (AGRA, 2009; Sanchez et al., 2009).”
• The politics of seed in Africa's green revolution: Alternative narratives and competing pathways (2011, background): “Ethiopia’, ESSP II Working Paper 020, Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute and Addis Ababa: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program II http://essp.ifpri.info/files/2011/02/ESSP2_WP20_SeedFertilizerAgrExtensionEthiopia.pdf (accessed 30 May 2011) Sperling, L. (2008) When Disaster Stri”
• Sustainable intensification and the African smallholder farmer (2014, background): “The recent call for an African Green Revolution [6] is an example of the urgency to remediate the current situation.”