1st Edition

Innovation In African Agriculture

By Arthur J. Dommen Copyright 1988
    152 Pages
    by CRC Press

    152 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This book looks at the input-output relations of low-resource agriculture in Africa and shows how the intensification process through the application of modern technologies can work successfully to raise productivity and to sustain production over the long term.

    Introduction -- Efficiency -- Introduction to Part One -- Environment and Resources -- Production -- Dynamics and Change -- Intensification of Production -- A Production Function of Low-Resource Agriculture -- Innovation -- The Population Question -- Two Relations Between Production and Population -- Conclusion and Implications