Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant
Author: Michael L. Morris
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821379429

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries--Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia--the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to.