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Book SynopsisThis open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice technology, whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in terms of topics, study periods, and study sites. It continues to show the significant impacts of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in intensification of rice farming, high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes, and the critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies, this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa.
Table of ContentsPreface
PART I: EXTENSIFICTION, INTENSIFICATION, AND REVOLUTION
Chapter 1: Issues of Rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa
Keijiro Otsuka, Yukichi Mano, and Kazushi Takahashi
1-1. Failure in the Past
1-2. Prospects in Future
1-3. Structure of the Book
Chapter 2: Role of Extension for Green Revolution
Kazushi Takahashi and Keijiro Otsuka
2-1. Role of Extension in Dissemination of New Technology
2-2. Impact of Rice Cultivation Training
2-3. Missing Issues
Chapter 3: Mechanization and Irrigation for Intensification of Rice Farming
Hiroyuki Takeshima and Yukichi Mano
3-1. Role of Mechanization in SSA
3-2. Role of Irrigation in SSA
3-3. Missing Issues
PART II: IMAPCT OF RICE CULTIVATION TRAINING
Chapter 4: The Case of Tanzania
Yuko Nakano
4-1. An Overview
4-2. From Key Farmers to Ordinary Farmers
4-3. Impact of Rice Intensification Program
Chapter 5: The Case of Uganda
Yoko Kijima
5-1. An Overview
5-2. Sustainability of Rice Cultivation Training Program
Chapter 6: The Case of Cote d’Ivoire
Kazushi Takahashi, Yukichi Mano, and Keijiro Otsuka
6-1. An Overview
6-2. Extension from Treated to Controlled Farmers
Chapter 7: The Case of Mozambique
Kei Kajisa
7-1. An Overview
7-2. An Impact Assessment of Rice Cultivation Training
PART III: MECHANIZATION AND INTENSIFICATION
Chapter 8: The Case of Cote d’Ivoire
Yukichi Mano, Kazushi Takahashi, and Keijiro Otsuka
Chapter 9: The Case of Tanzania
E.F. Magezi, Yuko Nakano, and Takeshi Sakurai
PART IV: RETURN TO LARGE-SCALE IRRIGATION INVESTMENT
Chapter 10: The Case of Kenya
Masao Kikuchi, Yukichi Mano, Timothy Njagi, D. Merrey and K. Otsuka
Chapter 11: The Case of Senegal
Takeshi Sakurai
Part V: RICE MILLERS AND RICE QUALITY
Chapter 12: The Case of Kenya
Yukichi Mano, Tim Njagi, and Keijiro Otsuka
Chapter 13: The Case of Ghana
Tetsuya Ogura, Joseph A. Awuni, and Takeshi Sakurai
PART VI: CONCLUSION
Chapter 14: Towards Full-Fledged Rice Green Revolution in SSA
Keijiro Otsuka, Yukichi Mano, and Kazushi Takahashi
