Agricultural development in Southern Africa: Theory, lessons and the food crisis in Africa

1 November 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Development Southern Africa

Vol. 1 (3-4) , 294-318
https://doi.org/10.1080/03768358408439093

Abstract

In this paper a household economics theory of farm‐household production in the Southern African context is presented which (a) places a new interpretation on the causes of low productivity per person and unit of land in the African farming sector, (b) demonstrates that even where improved food crop technology is widely adopted it may have a very limited impact on marketed production, and (c) contributes to an understanding of why Africa's food production per person continues to fall despite per capita aid inflows which have exceeded those for any other continent over the last decade.

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