The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Calestous Juma
Africa can feed itself, if it treats agriculture as a knowledge industry.
Juma argued that Africa can achieve food security and broad growth by modernizing agriculture through science, technology, infrastructure, regional markets, and entrepreneurship rather than treating farming as mere subsistence. Written by a Kenyan technology-policy scholar, it reframed agriculture as the engine of the continent's economic transformation and became influential with African governments and the African Union.
Its legacy. It shaped African Union and national thinking on agriculture-led growth.
- Author
- Calestous Juma
- First published
- 2011
- Genre
- Agricultural development
- Theme
- Political Economy and Development
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